Mortal Subjects

by Christina Howells

Book Overview

This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745652743
• ISBN13: 9780745652740
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"