Book contents
- Recovering the Human Subject
- Frontispiece
- Recovering the Human Subject
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reassembling Individual Subjects
- Part I Decision
- 3 On Singularity and the Event
- 4 Apathy and Revolution
- 5 Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as Decision-Events
- Part II Freedom
- Part III Creativity
- Index
- References
3 - On Singularity and the Event
Further Reflections on the Ordinary
from Part I - Decision
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Book contents
- Recovering the Human Subject
- Frontispiece
- Recovering the Human Subject
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reassembling Individual Subjects
- Part I Decision
- 3 On Singularity and the Event
- 4 Apathy and Revolution
- 5 Apparitions of the Virgin Mary as Decision-Events
- Part II Freedom
- Part III Creativity
- Index
- References
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- Recovering the Human SubjectFreedom, Creativity and Decision, pp. 53 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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