{"product_id":"self-and-its-pleasure-bataille-lacan-and-the-history-of-the-decentered-subject-paperback","title":"Self and Its Pleasure: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn J. Dean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. \u003ci\u003eThe Self and Its Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn J. Dean is Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French at Yale University. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust, \u003c\/i\u003e both from Cornell, and \u003ci\u003eThe Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.04 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131392888967,"sku":"9780801499548","price":44.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/129f1aa568cab72efe0f4d2352c943b3.webp?v=1732618596","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/self-and-its-pleasure-bataille-lacan-and-the-history-of-the-decentered-subject-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}