McNulty Wrestling with the Angel

Experiments in Symbolic Life
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53760-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNulty, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Enabling Constraints
Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic
1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud
2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change
Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written
3. Wrestling with the Angel
4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real
6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment
Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life
7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy McNulty is professor of French and comparative literature at Cornell University and the author of The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity.