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The Doppelganger Literature's Philosophy (9780823232994) examines how mirrored selves illuminate the deepest questions of identity, perception, and moral responsibility within literary history. This incisive study links philosophical inquiry to the motifs of doubling, offering a bold argument about why doppelgängers reveal more about texts than about separate others.

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Vardoulakis tracks the recurring figure of the double across diverse literary traditions, analyzing how doppelgängers destabilize authors’ intentions and foreground the fraught negotiations between consciousness and its reflection. Through close readings and cross-cultural comparisons, the book demonstrates that the impulse to duplicate is not mere gimmick but a philosophical probe into authenticity, ethical accountability, and the limits of representation.

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Dimitris Vardoulakis is a renowned philosopher and literary theorist whose work intersects phenomenology, political theory, and Continental philosophy. His scholarship often centers on questions of selfhood, embodiment, and the ethical dimensions of narrative, making substantial contributions to debates on subjectivity and the critique of ideology.

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The book reframes the doppelgänger as a rigorous philosophical instrument, revealing how literary doubles expose fundamental tensions between self and other, illusion and truth, and freedom and constraint.

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The Doppelganger Literature's Philosophy (9780823232994) examines how mirrored selves illuminate the deepest questions of identity, perception, and moral responsibility within literary history. This incisive study links philosophical inquiry to the motifs of doubling, offering a bold argument about why doppelgängers reveal more about texts than about separate others.

Summary

Vardoulakis tracks the recurring figure of the double across diverse literary traditions, analyzing how doppelgängers destabilize authors’ intentions and foreground the fraught negotiations between consciousness and its reflection. Through close readings and cross-cultural comparisons, the book demonstrates that the impulse to duplicate is not mere gimmick but a philosophical probe into authenticity, ethical accountability, and the limits of representation.

About the author

Dimitris Vardoulakis is a renowned philosopher and literary theorist whose work intersects phenomenology, political theory, and Continental philosophy. His scholarship often centers on questions of selfhood, embodiment, and the ethical dimensions of narrative, making substantial contributions to debates on subjectivity and the critique of ideology.

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The book reframes the doppelgänger as a rigorous philosophical instrument, revealing how literary doubles expose fundamental tensions between self and other, illusion and truth, and freedom and constraint.

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780823232994
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0823232999
Paperback
Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: Fordham University Press
329 Pages
Weight: 0,476 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9780823232994

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0-8232-3299-9, 978-0-8232-3299-4
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Book author: maurice blanchot, walter benjamin, jean paul, post war
Book title: doppelgänger, philosophy literature, initiative, dimitris, the university literature

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