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Book SynopsisThe author proposes a new understanding of the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and an explanation of the historical problematic that underlies the postmodern "end of culture".
Trade Review“Gans once again achieves in this book a level of explanatory coherence and a richness of ideas rarely seen today. In this extremely interesting and complex work, an event in itself, he proves himself a thinker of the first magnitude.”—Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan
Table of Contents1. Introduction: why generative anthropology; Part I . Paradoxical Thinking: 2. Mimetic paradox and the event of human origin; 3. The necessity of paradox; 4. The two varieties of truth; 5. On irony; 6. Plato and the birth of conceptual thought; 7. Originary being, originary thinking; 8. The origins of signification; 9. Two psychoanalytic categories: Eros and the unconscious; Part II. Sparagmos and Resentment: 10. Originary violence; 11. The 'Jewish question'; 12. Originary and victimary rhetoric; 13. The end of culture; Notes; Index.
