Alina Clej: 2 books
Subjects and Simulations
Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real...
A Genealogy of the Modern Self
Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same...