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Title: Freud and the Non-European
Condition: New
EAN: 9781781681459
ISBN: 9781781681459
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 07/01/2014
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Weight: 114g
Author: Edward W. Said
Contributor: Christopher Bollas (Introduction by), Jacqueline Rose (Contributions by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1781681457
Description: Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own.
He proposes that Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 7mm
Genre: History
Book Series: Radical Thinkers Set 08
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Law & Politics
Release Year: 2014

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