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.