Renouncing the Known- Lacan, Zen, Self-Practice

By: Cheng, Mulan

This project embarked upon a quest to address the prevailing late modern and postmodern notions of subjectivity, which emphasize its cultural construction and decentered nature. The author's intuition led them to seek a personal, existential complement to these conceptions, ultimately finding resonance in a kenotically Christian spirituality. This work draws inspiration from Hegelian, sociological, and Foucauldian perspectives that frame the subject as both a product and perpetuator of history and culture. It argues that the erroneous perception of subjectivity as a self-identical, transparently self-present, separate, enduring, and inherently agential ego fosters the retention and replication of internalized antecedent influences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8087551737
• ISBN13: 9788087551738
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Mulan Cheng
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"