Transgression and the Inexistent : a Philosophical Vocabulary /
A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a comprehensive foray into Kacem''s elaborate philosophical system in twenty-seven discreet chap...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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Colección: | Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a comprehensive foray into Kacem''s elaborate philosophical system in twenty-seven discreet chapters, each dedicated to a single concept. In each chapter, he explicates a critical re-thinking of ordinary lived experiences - such as desire, irony, play - or traditional philosophical ideas such as catharsis, mimesis, techne in light of ''the spirit of nihilism'' that marks the contemporary human condi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781472526021 1472526023 |