Ebook: Flesh of My Flesh
Author: Silverman Kaja
- Tags: Art Modern--Philosophy, Ontology in literature, Resemblance (Philosophy) in literature, Analogy in literature, Literature, Orpheus -- (Greek mythological character) -- In literature, Art Modern -- Philosophy, Orpheus -- (Greek mythological character)
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Palo Alto
- Language: English
- epub
Through a wide-ranging discussion, that extends from Ovid and Leonardo da Vinci to Gerhard Richter, and from philosophy and literature to time-based art, Kaja Silverman shows that the master myth of Western subjectivity is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, not that of Oedipus, and this Janus-faced myth has the capacity both to destroy and to save us.;Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THEN; NOW; Notes; Illustration Captions and Credits; Index.
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