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  Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (Hardback) By (author) Markus Gabriel, By (author) Slavoj Zizek

  

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  Short Description for Mythology, Madness and LaughterFeatures three crucial themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. This book shows how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom.
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  • Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 01 December 2009
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
  • ISBN 13: 9781441191052 ISBN 10: 1441191054
  • Sales rank: 146,000

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• This is a hugely important book that rediscovers three crucial, but long overlooked themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. "Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism" explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Zizek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom. Engaging with three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel, Schelling and Fichte, Gabriel and Zizek, who here shows himself to be one of the most erudite and important scholars of German idealism, ask how is it possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, including the problem of madness and everydayness in Hegel, this hugely important book aims to reinvigorate a philosophy of finitude and contingency, topics at the forefront of contemporary European philosophy.