Syncope The Philosophy of Rapture

Name: Syncope The Philosophy of Rapture
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ISBN: 9780816619788

ISBN-10: 0816619786

ISBN-13: 9780816619788

Edition: 1994

Authors: Catherine Clement, Deirdre M. Mahoney, Verena A. Conley, Deirdre M. Mahoney

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A comparison of Western and Indian philosophies using syncope, to describe the escape from self and the rapture of uncertainty in human endeavour.

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/7/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword: East Meets West



Translators' Preface


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Where Am I?



Choosing Night



Philosophers and Their Daemons



Depriving the City of Spices: Plato Purges the Republic



The Owl and the Nightingale: Hegel and Holderlin



Loves Me, Loves Me Not; or, The Love of Dialectic



Of Young Girls as Thought: Kierkegaard the Seducer



Abraham, and a Roasted Lamb's Head



The Great Attack



The Birth of Identity and the Syncope of the Imago: Lacan



"Inter faeces et urinas": Tantrism Between Feces and Urine



Thought Burned Alive: Indian Philosophies



Syncope Leaves for the Forest: The Renouncers



Educational Love at First Sight: The Lady, the Guru, and the Psychoanalyst



Jouissances: Between the Angel and the Placenta



Ego Orgasm and the Indolence of the Subject



Syncope's Strategies: The Creative Act and the Un-Governing of the World


Conclusion: Deceiving Death and Embracing God


Notes


Index