Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life

✍ Scribed by Tracy McNulty

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Enabling Constraints
PART 1. REINVENTING THE SYMBOLIC
1. INVENTIONS OF THE SYMBOLIC
2. DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE
PART 2. POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF THE WRITTEN
3. WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
4. THE GAP IN THE WRITTEN LAW AND THE UNWRITABLE ACT OF DECISION
5. THE EVENT OF THE LETTER
6. THE COMMANDMENT AGAINST THE LAW
CODA: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life
7. FREEDOM THROUGH CONSTRAINTS
Notes
Index

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