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Flesh of My Flesh

By Kaja , Silverman

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN
9780804773362, 080477336X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
28 MB (29638038 bytes)
Pages
303 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ArtModern -- Philosophy;Orpheus -- (Greek mythologicaModern--Philosophy;Ontology in literature;Resembla

Description

Through a wide-ranging discussion, that extends from Ovid and Leonardo da Vinci to Gerhard Richter, and from philosophy and literature to time-based art, Kaja Silverman shows that the master myth of Western subjectivity is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, not that of Oedipus, and this Janus-faced myth has the capacity both to destroy and to save us.;Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THEN; NOW; Notes; Illustration Captions and Credits; Index. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction THEN NOW Notes Illustration Captions and Credits Index.

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