How to Read Freud

by Josh Cohen, Simon Critchley (Editor)

Overview

Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction—a personal master class in reading—that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Freud's core conviction that our innermost truths manifest only as distortions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393328172
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/2005
Series:	How to Read
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Josh Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths University of London, and the author of Spectacular Allegories and Interrupting Auschwitz.


Simon Critchley is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include The Book of Dead Philosophers, Bowie, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us.