The Flesh of Words by Jacques Rancire

The Flesh of Words by Jacques Rancire

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Summary

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives.

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The Flesh of Words by Jacques Rancire

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or is no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives.
Jacques Rancière is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Stanford has also published Rancière's Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003).
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ISBN 13 9780804740784
ISBN 10 080474078X
Title The Flesh of Words
Author Jacques Rancière
Series Atopia: Philosophy Political Theory Aesthetics
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 2004-07-09
Number of pages 184
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