Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and RepresentationIn this book, Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism without reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into the debates concerning power and domination, transcendence and eternity. |
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User Review - m.gilbert - LibraryThingThis collection of posthumously published lectures by the brilliant scholar Gillian Rose examines the political and philosophical paradoxes which emerge in the separation of metaphysics from ethics ... Read full review
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| Title | Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation, Gillian Rose |
| Author | Gillian Rose |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0521578493, 9780521578493 |
| Length | 163 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Social Science / Sociology / General |
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