{"product_id":"lacan-and-cassirer-an-essay-on-symbolisation-9789004373426","title":"Lacan and Cassirer: An Essay on Symbolisation ","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   1 An Outline of the Human Condition    1.1 Three Levels of the Human Condition: From Intentionality to Structure   1.2 Three Types of Hermeneutics: From Signification to Signifier   1.3 Three Levels of the Human Condition Revisited   1.4 Application in Psychopathology   1.5An Inquiry into Possibility: The Capacity to Symbolise   2 Cassirer    2.1 A Return to Kant   2.2 Cassirer’s Ambition   2.3 Cassirer and Heidegger   2.4 The Mind and Critical Idealism   2.5 The Concept of a Symbolic Form   2.6 Myth and Religion, Language, Science   2.7 Symbolisation: Three Sources and Three Modes   2.8 A Symbolic Form in the Making?   3 Lacan    3.1 A Return to Freud   3.2 The Autonomy of the Symbolic Order   3.3 The Dialectics of Desire   3.4 Differential Character of the Language Sign   3.5 Symbolic Identification   3.6 The Real: Three Domains, Three Forms   3.7 The Later Lacan   3.8 Joyce and Lacan   3.9 Substance or Function   3.10 Lacan and Cassirer Juxtaposed   3.11 Lacan and Cassirer Put into a Mutual Relationship   4 Variations on the Theme of Symbolisation    4.1 The Human Condition and the Symbolic Function   4.2 The Medial Turn and Its Philosophy   4.3 Symbolisation in Perception   4.4 Homo Symbolicus: An Evolutionary Perspective   4.5 The Symbolic Order from A Normative Perspective: Politics, Law, Ethics   4.6 Shades of Symbolisation: The Psychic Disorder   4.7 One and the Same Theme?  Bibliography  Annex: Diagram of the Symbolising Process  Index of Names  Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210755105111,"sku":"9789004373426","price":65.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lacan-and-cassirer-an-essay-on-symbolisation-9789004373426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}