Persons and things /

"In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Barbara, 1947-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Human beings in literature.
Object (Philosophy) in literature.
Êtres humains dans la littérature.
Objet (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Human beings in literature
Literature > Philosophy
Object (Philosophy) in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toys R us: legal persons, Personal pronouns, definitions
  • The poetics of things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge
  • Monuments
  • Ego sum game
  • The urn it
  • Puppets and prostheses
  • Using people: Kant with Winnicott
  • Romancing the stone
  • Surmounted beliefs
  • Artificial life
  • Real dolls
  • Animation
  • Face value
  • Anthropomorphism in lyric and law
  • Lost cause.

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