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Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called world love, the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freud s assertion that the loss of reality associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself. In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the world that the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned to what she terms world spectatorship.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

• Full title: World Spectators
• Author: Kaja Silverman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780804738323
• ISBN: 0804738327
• ID: 05140625
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2000

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