{"product_id":"the-philosophers-desire-9780804756006","title":"The Philosophers Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, William Egginton argues for the centrality of a psychoanalytic notion of interpretation for philosophy and literary theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Egginton provides a thorough but theoretical discussion of the notion of interpretation as it relates to literary and philosophical texts. Relying on the work of major literary, psychoanalytic, and cultural critics, Egginton problematizes the idea that authors can be distinct from their interpretations... [A] valuable contribution to the study of literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This tightly wound and carefully crafted treatise reads like wonderful detective fiction. It brings together dominant twentieth-century interpretive practices usually understood to be in opposition to one another in order to focus on a singular object of interpretation they have in common: that of the philosopher's desire. In tying together psychoanalysis, phenomenological hermeneutics, deconstruction, and literary practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the current fields of psychoanalysis and criticism in general and establishes its author as a leading theorist of psychoanalytic commentary.\" -- Gregg Lambert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents:  Acknowledgments\txxx  Prologue: interpretive strings\t1  1. The interpretation string  The bi-polar logos - The awakening - The fault-line  2. The psychosis string  The incommunicable world - The exclusion of the Other \/ Reality and Uncertainty \/ Psychosis   and interpretation \/ To space or not to space  3. The purloined string  Death and the Signifier \/ Truth to the letter \/ The racketeer of truth  4. The temporality string  Of time and spacing \/ Vulgar time \/ Original time \/ Memorious time  Epilogue: The sense of certainties to come  Notes  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405568811351,"sku":"9780804756006","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804756006.jpg?v=1730492865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-philosophers-desire-9780804756006","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}