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Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.

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“This original and important book demonstrates the inseparability of philosophy and psychoanalysis for any serious attempt to answer a question so profoundly relevant to the very nature of our being that it does not ‘belong’ to any one discipline: the question, as Silverman puts it, of what it means for the world that each one of us is in it. The book has a remarkable clarity; Silverman makes the most complex argument seem like a perfectly natural, and absolutely necessary, movement of thought.”—Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents
1. Seeing for the sake of seeing; 2. Eating the book; 3. Listening to language; 4. Apparatus for the production of an image; 5. The milky way; 6. The language of things; Notes; Index.

World Spectators

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      Book details

      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 August 2000
      ISBN-13 9780804738316
      978-0804738316
      ISBN-10 0804738319

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.

      Trade Review
      “This original and important book demonstrates the inseparability of philosophy and psychoanalysis for any serious attempt to answer a question so profoundly relevant to the very nature of our being that it does not ‘belong’ to any one discipline: the question, as Silverman puts it, of what it means for the world that each one of us is in it. The book has a remarkable clarity; Silverman makes the most complex argument seem like a perfectly natural, and absolutely necessary, movement of thought.”—Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley

      Table of Contents
      1. Seeing for the sake of seeing; 2. Eating the book; 3. Listening to language; 4. Apparatus for the production of an image; 5. The milky way; 6. The language of things; Notes; Index.

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