Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Postmodern Spiritual Practices The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / Paul Allen Miller. - 1 online resource (x, 270 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.

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.

Open Access

9780814272091 0814272096




Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Derrida, Jacques.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Plato--Influence.


France--Intellectual life--20th century.


Electronic books.

DC33.7 / .M539 2007

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