Body and story
Subtitle: the ethics and practice of theoretical conflict
By: Richard Terdiman.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.; Theory (Philosophy); Postmodernism.; Enlightenment.; Language and languages -- Philosophy.; Reality.
Description: "In Body and Story Richard Terdiman explores the tension between what have seemed two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world: as directly experienced physical reality and as representation in language. In demonstrating the historically more complicated relationship between these two conceptions, he also offers a new approach to the problem of conflicts between irreconcilable but equally compelling theoretical ideas."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nun who never was; title: On the matter of bodies; title: The body and the text; title: Materiality, language, and money; title: The Enlightenment discovers postmodernism; title: The epistemology of difference; title: Materiality, resistance, and time.