
Mortal Subjects
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From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy andneuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche andsoma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrantto analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where theexplanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic formsthe broad backdrop to the work's primary focus oncontemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand theintimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in thelight not only of the 'death' of the classical subjectbut also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on,finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete.Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude asthe paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permitsits transcendence.
Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will beinvaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporarytheories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by theperennial connections between love and death.
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Abbreviations vii
1 Introduction: Love and Death 1
2 Phenomenology of Emotion and Forgetfulness of Death 24
Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone deBeauvoir
3 Religious Philosophy: Keeping Body and Soul Together 69
Gabriel Marcel, Paul Ricoeur, Vladimir Jankélévitch,Emmanuel Levinas
4 Psychoanalytic Thought: Eros and Thanatos, Psyche and Soma127
Jacques Lacan, Didier Anzieu, Julia Kristeva
5 The Deconstruction of Dualism: Death and the Subject 175
Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy
Epilogue 216
Notes 228
Bibliography 244
Index 259
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