Description
Book SynopsisIn analyzing these shifts he proposes a new model for understanding how seemingly unabridgeable theories legitimately coexist in our intellectual conception of the world, and he suggests a new ethics for managing this coexistence.
Trade ReviewIn this nuanced study, Terdiman addresses a conflict that seems to define much of contemporary critical debate: the conflict between seeing the world as something that can be experienced directly and immediately and seeing the world as being defined through and through by representation and language... Highly recommended. Choice 2006 Given its interdisciplinary theme and state-of-the-art methodology, Body and Story is a relevant contribution to students and researchers of philosophy, literature, culture and history. -- Cyana Leahy-Dios European Legacy 2008 A thought-provoking book and an original contribution. -- Christopher Cowley and Alena Dvorakova Philosophy in Review 2008
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Difference in Theory
Part I: The Consequentiality of Bodies
1. The Nun Who Never Was
2. On the Matter of Bodies
3. The Body and the Text
4. Materiality, Language, and Money
Part II: The Conflict of Theories
5. The Enlightenment Discovers Postmodernism
6. The Epistemology of Difference
7. Materiality, Resistance, and Time
In-Conclusion: An Ethics of Theory
Works Cited
Index
