Double Trouble: The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism - Paperback

by Eran Dorfman (Author)

Eran Dorfman proposes the theory that the double is a key to understanding human subjectivity, overcoming the limits of phenomenological, psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theories by drawing on various disciplines and combining the personal and the theoretical.

Author Biography

Eran Dorfman is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University, and a former Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He is the author of Foundations of the Everyday: Shock, Deferral, Repetition (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014); Learning to See the World Anew: Merleau-Ponty Facing the Lacanian Mirror (Phaenomenologica series, Springer, 2007, in French); and the co-editor of Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms (Leuven University Press, 2010).