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In this work, Agamben draws on philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy, in an attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He dismisses the possibility of a metalanguage.

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Part 1 The phantasms of Eros: The noonday demon; Melencolia I; Melancholic Eros; The lost object; The phantasms of Eros. Part 2 In the world of Odradek: Freud or the absent object; Marx or the universal exposition; Baudelaire or the absolute commodity; Beau Brummel or the appropriation of unreality; Mme Panckoucke or the toy-fairy. Part 3 The word and the phantasm: Narcissus and Pygmalion; Eros at the mirror "Spiritus phantasticus"; Spirits of love; Between Narcissus and Pygmalion; The "joy that never ends". Part 4 The perverse image: Oedipus and the sphinx; The proper and the improper; The barrier and the fold.

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/11/1992
      ISBN13: 9780816620388, 978-0816620388
      ISBN10: 0816620385

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this work, Agamben draws on philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy, in an attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He dismisses the possibility of a metalanguage.

      Table of Contents
      Part 1 The phantasms of Eros: The noonday demon; Melencolia I; Melancholic Eros; The lost object; The phantasms of Eros. Part 2 In the world of Odradek: Freud or the absent object; Marx or the universal exposition; Baudelaire or the absolute commodity; Beau Brummel or the appropriation of unreality; Mme Panckoucke or the toy-fairy. Part 3 The word and the phantasm: Narcissus and Pygmalion; Eros at the mirror "Spiritus phantasticus"; Spirits of love; Between Narcissus and Pygmalion; The "joy that never ends". Part 4 The perverse image: Oedipus and the sphinx; The proper and the improper; The barrier and the fold.

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