{"product_id":"ego-sum-corpus-anima-fabula-9780823270620","title":"Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of knowledge on the absolute self-certainty of a Subject fully transparent to itself. While other theoretical discourses, such as psychoanalysis, have also attempted to subvert this Subject, Nancy shows how they always inadvertently reconstituted the Subject they were trying to leave behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNancy's wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivity's founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of \"the subject\" is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartes's subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that\u003cbr\u003epopulate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartes's ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, as well as a respected commentator on art and culture. His wide-ranging thought is developed in books including \u003cem\u003eListening\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eDis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eNoli me Tangere: On the\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRaising of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCorpus\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eCorpus II: Writings on Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e, all published by Fordham University Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarie-Eve Morin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is the author of Jean-Luc Nancy and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eJean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872891048210,"sku":"9780823270620","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73a285b7-1c04-41a8-91fb-f17b6bcdc17e.jpg?v=1737914662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ego-sum-corpus-anima-fabula-9780823270620","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}