Requiem for the ego Freud and the origins of postmodernism
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's cap...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798416706719 |
| Summary: | Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing di |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804788304 |
