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Clement Rosset bridges highbrow philosophy with everyday life, using pop culture to illuminate complex metaphysical issues.
As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clement Rosset's work attempts to connect sometimes lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues, often using popular film, theatre, novels, and comic books to illustrate his ideas, and as a result, he has gained a reputation as both a happy sage and a singular mind. In The Real and Its Double, expertly translated by Chris Turner, Rosset takes on the question of the Real and humanity's natural ability to sidestep and bypass it. The key to this type of evasion, Rosset suggests, is a certain form of oracular thinking that lies buried in the origins of Western metaphysics and psychology. Here, Rosset eschews the prolix and paradoxical psychological theories of Derrida and Lacan in favor of an exceptional lucidity that speaks to his Nietzschean-tragic love of life. If good philosophy can be defined as expressing complicated things in a simple way, then here, in one of his best-known works, Rosset has proven himself a master.
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9781803095233
Author Clement Rosset
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
Weight(grams) 113g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm
As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clement Rosset's work attempts to connect sometimes lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues, often using popular film, theatre, novels, and comic books to illustrate his ideas, and as a result, he has gained a reputation as both a happy sage and a singular mind. In The Real and Its Double, expertly translated by Chris Turner, Rosset takes on the question of the Real and humanity's natural ability to sidestep and bypass it. The key to this type of evasion, Rosset suggests, is a certain form of oracular thinking that lies buried in the origins of Western metaphysics and psychology. Here, Rosset eschews the prolix and paradoxical psychological theories of Derrida and Lacan in favor of an exceptional lucidity that speaks to his Nietzschean-tragic love of life. If good philosophy can be defined as expressing complicated things in a simple way, then here, in one of his best-known works, Rosset has proven himself a master.
About the Author
Clement Rosset (1939-2018) was educated at L'Ecole normale superieure, Paris, and taught philosophy at the University of Montreal and the University of Nice. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.
Book Information
ISBN 9781803095233
Author Clement Rosset
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
Weight(grams) 113g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm
