Wrestling with the Angel : : Experiments in Symbolic Life /

Wrestling with the Angel : : Experiments in Symbolic Life / / Tracy McNulty.

Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.The book begins by call...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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McNulty, Tracy,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Enabling Constraints
  • PART 1. REINVENTING THE SYMBOLIC
  • 1. INVENTIONS OF THE SYMBOLIC
  • 2. DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE
  • PART 2. POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE QUESTION OF THE WRITTEN
  • 3. WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
  • 4. THE GAP IN THE WRITTEN LAW AND THE UNWRITABLE ACT OF DECISION
  • 5. THE EVENT OF THE LETTER
  • 6. THE COMMANDMENT AGAINST THE LAW
  • CODA: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life
  • 7. FREEDOM THROUGH CONSTRAINTS
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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