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Model: EN0210
ISBN: 9780415252898
Authors: BELSEY, C.
Publishers: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN & HALL
Price: $4,130.00JMD
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Culture and the Real explains with Professor Belsey's characteristic lucidity the views of recent theorists, including Jean-FranÃois Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, as well as their debt to the earlier work of Kant and Hegel, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human. To explore the human, she demonstrates, is to acknowledge the relationship between culture and what we don't know: not the familiar world picture presented to us by culture as 'reality', but the unsayable, or the strange region that lies beyond culture, which Lacan has called 'the real'. Culture, she argues, registers a sense of its own limits in ways more subtle than the theorists allow.