Signs of paradox
Subtitle: irony, resentment, and other mimetic structures
By: Eric Gans.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Paradox; Irony; Resentment
Description: Starting from the minimal principle of generative anthropology - that human culture originates as "the deferral of violence through representation" - the author proposes a new understanding of the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and an explanation of the historical problematic that underlies the postmodern "end of culture."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218) and index.