The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy

ISBN-13: 9781138475557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Juliet Flower MacCannell

Opis

Challenges modernity on its own terms, using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, and texts as diverse as Rousseau's "Confessions" and James's "What Maisie Knew". The author confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment.

Spis treści

Part I: History and Theory of the Regime of the Brother 1. The Primal Scene of Modernity 2. Modernity as the Abscence of the Other Part II: Readings in the Regime of the Brother 3. Egomimesis 4. Feminine Eros: From the Bourgeois State to the Nuclear State Part III: The End(s) of Love in the Western World 5. The End(s) of Love in the Western World 6. Reconstructing the Desire of the Mother 7. After the New Regime

O autorze

Juliet Flower MacCannell