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Christos Tombras, "Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Human Body Is a Smooth Surfaced Egg

Eg am lecon focused on the question of limits in connection to the human body. The rims around holes on the body's surface were thought as loci where juissanse flows faster, so to speak. To picture this, lecon used a small parable in which he referred to the human being as a smooth surfaced egg that breaks because of language. Because the human body is not an egg, things are happening on the human body in loin localities.

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