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...Silverman has managed to advance an ethical position with scrupulous lucidity, as intricate as it is compelling and inspiring.
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Kaja Silverman is Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including "The Threshold of the Visible World", "Male Subjectivity at the Margins", and "The Subject of Semiotics".
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0415910382
- ISBN 13 9780415910385
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages350
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