The Real and Its Double - Couverture souple

Rosset, Clément

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803095237 ISBN 13 : 9781803095233

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Clément Rosset bridges highbrow philosophy with everyday life, using pop culture to illuminate complex metaphysical issues.

As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clément Rosset's work attempts to connect sometimes lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues, often using popular film, theatre, novels, and comic books to illustrate his ideas, and as a result, he has gained a reputation as both a happy sage and a singular mind. In The Real and Its Double, expertly translated by Chris Turner, Rosset takes on the question of the Real and humanity's natural ability to sidestep and bypass it. The key to this type of evasion, Rosset suggests, is a certain form of oracular thinking that lies buried in the origins of Western metaphysics and psychology. Here, Rosset eschews the prolix and paradoxical psychological theories of Derrida and Lacan in favor of an exceptional lucidity that speaks to his Nietzschean-tragic love of life. If good philosophy can be defined as expressing complicated things in a simple way, then here, in one of his best-known works, Rosset has proven himself a master.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Clément Rosset (1939-2018) was educated at L'École normale supérieure, Paris, and taught philosophy at the University of Montreal and the University of Nice.

Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German, including, for Seagull Books, titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, André Gorz, Yves Bonnefoy, and Pascal Quignard, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803095237
• ISBN 13: 9781803095233
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
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