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Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of ‘man’ as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self...

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Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2023
Online Access:http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801426605/the-self-and-its-pleasures