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Are there any good sources that would help me read Lacan's Seminar XVII?
I've been interested in psychoanalysis for the past year or so; I've read a little bit of Freud (the introductory lectures, the case study on the Rat Man, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and about half ...
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How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
How, if at all, has the concept of rhetoric mutated during post-modernity?
I gather than it ('rhetoric') began its life, in classical Greece, as a form of public discourse inclusive of 'poetry', '...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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Who should I read to broadly understand contemporary philosophical discourse?
I'm taking ancient philosophy at a public university. I've engaged with the Western canon from the pre-socratics through Aristotle, a number of the medievals and a smattering of modern philosophers ...
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What do post modernists make of modern art and modernity?
What do post modernists make of modernism and modernity: how it has failed and succeeded?
I can only take the term "post modern" at face value, as meaning after modern.
The modern itself I can't ...