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Wrestling with the angel : experiments in symbolic life /
This title provides 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Enabling Constraints; Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic; 1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud; 2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change; Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written; 3. Wrestling with the Angel; 4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology; 5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real.
- 6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of JudgmentCoda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life; 7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will; Notes; Index.