Research Catalog

Title

Of minimal things : studies on the notion of relation / Rodolphe Gasché.

Author

Gasché, Rodolphe.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

x, 380 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Of Minimal Things is an exploration and reassessment of the philosophical notion of relation. In contrast to the scholastic, ontological conception of relation as a thing of diminished being, this book views relation as the minimal and elemental theme and structure of philosophy. Drawing radical conclusions from the classical understanding of relation as a being-toward-another, it argues that rethinking relation engages the very possibility and limits of philosophical discourse."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cultural memory in the present

Uniform Title

Cultural memory in the present

Subject

• Relation (Philosophy)
• Relaties (filosofie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Untimely Relations -- Ecce Homo, or The Written Body -- Type-Writing Nietzsche's Self -- Intending the Nonrelational -- Tearing at the Texture -- Cutting in on Distance -- Coming into Relation -- Floundering in Determination -- Tuned to Accord -- Canonizing Measures -- "Like the Rose--Without Why" -- Perhaps: A Modality? -- Rhythm and Zigzag -- On the Nonadequate Trait -- Joining the Text -- On Re-Presentation -- Relation at the Crossroads -- Reading Chiasms -- "A Relation Called 'Literary'" -- The Felicities of Paradox.

ISBN

• 0804736766
• 9780804736763
• 0804736774
• 9780804736770

LCCN

• 99038672
• 9780804736770

OCLC

• ocm43114948
• 43114948
• SCSB-9438681

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library