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Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation

Paperback • 2008

Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation

By Gillian Rose

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Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to the late Gillian Rose's acclaimed memoir Love's Work. It presents a powerful and eloquent case against postmodernism, and breathes new life into the debates about power and domination, transcendence and eternity. Addressing topics such as architecture, cinema, painting, poetry, the Holocaust and Judaism, Gillian Rose enables us to connect ideas about the individual and society with theories of justice. This is philosophy for the nonphi...Show more

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9780521578493

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2008

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