Catachresis and Mis-Being in Judith Butler and Étienne Balibar: Contemporary Refigurations of the Human as a Face Drawn in the Sand.

The controversy over humanism in the second half of the twentieth century seemed to promote an irreversible abandonment of the concept of the human, famously illustrated by Foucault's image of the face sketched in the sand at the seashore being erased by the water. In the last two decades, however,...

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Publicado en:Literature & Theology Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 142 - 161
Autor principal: Ingala, Emma
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2018
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