Pierre Legendre: God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images

Pierre Legendre: God in the Mirror: A Study of the Institution of Images
ISBN-10
1138233269
ISBN-13
9781138233263
Category
Image (Philosophy)
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2018-09-28
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Pierre Legendre

Description

In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre's God in the Mirrorreconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Rene Magritte, this third volume of Pierre Legendre's Lessonsfocuses on the relation of the subject to the institution of images. Legendre tracks the origins and vicissitudes of the specular metaphor within western history, carrying out a critique of its dependence on the discourse of the Imago Dei. A crucial landmark within Legendre's ongoing reconsideration of a medieval 'revolution of interpretation', this book dissociates the western normative tradition from its mythic foundation, separating theology and law. It thereby documents the advent of modern rational doubt, as a new legal foundation or ground: one that, for Legendre, was not only a revolutionary invention, but one that produced the modern European idea of the State.

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