Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) - Softcover

Raschke, Carl A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791427307 ISBN 13: 9780791427309

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

Interprets postmodernity in relation to the body-the "somatological a priori, and applies current critical theory to issues of gender, popular culture fashion, and magic, as well as the Western philosophical/theological tradition. Covering a wealth of authors and literature from Baudrillard to Foucault, from Freud to Lacan, from Plato to Heidegger, from the study of women's fashion to Girardian perspectives on the sacrificial victim, Fire and Roses shows that the "postmodern theme" is something much more than the play of disconnection and diversity. Postmodernism is, in fact, a kind of "epistemology" of the somatic remainder that has been the "stranger" in the house of Western thought.

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About the Author

Carl A. Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. He is co-editor of Lacan and Theological Discourse, also published by SUNY Press.

From the Back Cover

Covering a wealth of authors and literature from Baudrillard to Foucault, from Freud to Lacan, from Plato to Heidegger, from the study of women's fashion to Girardian perspectives on the sacrificial victim, Fire and Roses shows that the 'postmodern theme' is something much more than the play of disconnection and diversity.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791427307
• ISBN 13: 9780791427309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214