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Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.

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"In this masterful study which lays out the groundwork for his later corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy examines the emergence of subjectivity as a philosophical event whose advent is decisively shaped by its discursive articulation. Taking to task the attempt to utter through one's mouth rather than merely think the givens of one's existence, he deftly captures the struggle of modern thought to re-envision its modes of being in the margins of philosophy and literature."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory University

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Ego Sum (Opening) Dum Scribo Larvatus pro Deo Mundus est fabula Unum quid

Ego Sum Corpus Anima Fabula

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 2 May 2016
      ISBN-13 9780823270613
      978-0823270613
      ISBN-10 0823270610
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      Philosophy of mind Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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      Book Synopsis
      Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.

      Trade Review
      "In this masterful study which lays out the groundwork for his later corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy examines the emergence of subjectivity as a philosophical event whose advent is decisively shaped by its discursive articulation. Taking to task the attempt to utter through one's mouth rather than merely think the givens of one's existence, he deftly captures the struggle of modern thought to re-envision its modes of being in the margins of philosophy and literature."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory University

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      Ego Sum (Opening) Dum Scribo Larvatus pro Deo Mundus est fabula Unum quid

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