Signs of Paradox - Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures

"Gans once again achieves in this book a level of explanatory coherence and a richness of ideas rarely seen today. In this extremely interesting and complex work, an event in itself, he proves himself a thinker of the first magnitude."--Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan

About the author

Eric Gans is Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books on generative anthropology are The Origin of Language (1981), The End of Culture (1985), Science and Faith (1990), and Originary Thinking (Stanford, 1993).

Summary

The author proposes a new understanding of the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and an explanation of the historical problematic that underlies the postmodern "end of culture".

Additional text

“Gans once again achieves in this book a level of explanatory coherence and a richness of ideas rarely seen today. In this extremely interesting and complex work, an event in itself, he proves himself a thinker of the first magnitude.”—Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan

Product details

• Authors: Gans Eric, Eric Gans
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1997
• EAN: 9780804727693
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2769-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 392 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day