Foundations of the Everyday

Shock, Deferral, Repetition

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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We are used to seeing the everyday as an ordinary aspect of life, something that we need to "overcome"; whereas it actually plays a crucial role in any event of our lives. This highly original book engages with a range of thinkers and texts from across the fields of phenomenology, psychoanalysis and critical theory, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Freud and Benjamin, together with innovative analysis of French literature and the visual arts, to demonstrate that the role of repetition and deferral in modernity has changed dramatically. Rather than allowing the everyday gradually to integrate singular events into its repetitive texture, events are experienced now as self-enclosed entities, allegedly disconnected from the everyday, leading to its impoverishment. The book thus offers a novel understanding of being, body, trauma and shock, but within the framework of the everyday as a concept that deserves a theory of its very own.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-06-04
Mått143 x 219 x 18 mm
Vikt281 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophical Projections
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781783480500

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Eran Dorfman is senior lecturer in French at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a former program director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He is the author of Learning to See the World Anew: Merleau-Ponty Facing the Lacanian Mirror (Phaenomenologica, Springer, 2007, in French) and the co-editor of Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms (Leuven University Press, 2010).

[A]n excellent book that forcefully argues for, and comprehensively addresses, the contemporary importance of the everyday. Dorfman clearly and imaginatively weaves together a variety of authors and phenomena, whose interrelation would by no means be apparent at first glance. Foundations is a landmark in philosophical reflections on the everyday, as well as indispensable reading for those interested in modernity and trauma studies.