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Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.The book begins by call...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNulty, Tracy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Colección:Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Temas:
Psychoanalysis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Enabling Constraints
  • PART 1. REINVENTING THE SYMBOLIC
  • 1. INVENTIONS OF THE SYMBOLIC
  • 2. DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE
  • PART 2. POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF THE WRITTEN
  • 3. WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
  • 4. THE GAP IN THE WRITTEN LAW AND THE UNWRITABLE ACT OF DECISION
  • 5. THE EVENT OF THE LETTER
  • 6. THE COMMANDMENT AGAINST THE LAW
  • CODA: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life
  • 7. FREEDOM THROUGH CONSTRAINTS
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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