Postmodern spiritual practices : the construction of the subject and the reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / Paul Allen Miller.

Author/creator Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

SeriesClassical memories/modern identities
Classical memories/modern identities. ^A758974
Contents Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.
LCCN 2007015287
ISBN9780814210703 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814210708 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814291474 (cd-rom)
ISBN0814291473 (cd-rom)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DC 33.7 .M539 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold