By Christina Howells
From Aristotle via to modern analytic philosophy and neuroscience the connection among brain and physique (psyche and soma, realization and mind) has been repeatedly recalcitrant to research, and emotion (or ardour) is the locus the place the explanatory hole is such a lot keenly pointed out. This difficult types the wide backdrop to the work’s basic specialise in modern French philosophy and its makes an attempt to appreciate the intimate courting among subjectivity and mortality, within the gentle not just of the ‘death’ of the classical topic but in addition of the very genuine frailty of the topic because it lives on, finite, needing, embodied, open to alterity and constantly incomplete. finally Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude because the paradoxical energy of the mortal topic and as what allows its transcendence.
refined, fantastically written, and cogently argued, this e-book could be beneficial for college students and students drawn to modern theories of subjectivity, in addition to for readers intrigued through the perennial connections among love and death.
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