Self and emotional life : philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience /
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientifi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Insurrections.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity.Merging three distinct disciplines?European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience?Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of affective |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (523 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 023153518X (electronic bk.) 9780231535182 (electronic bk.) |