The Uncanniness of the Ordinary: Aesthetic Implications of Stanley Cavell’s Rethinking of Das Unheimliche

Through the many reinterpretations of Freud’s essay Das Unheimliche (1919) within French Postmodernism, in recent decades, the uncanny has become a vague synonym for the methodology of deconstruction. The article aims to disambiguate the uncanny by reestablishing its characterizing nucleus and reloc...

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Main Author: Gineprini Lorenzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-07-01
Series:Open Philosophy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0252