Signs of the Self

The function of the monster as a sign (monstrare, to show) that warns against intellectual surquedry is an intellectual tradition reaching down from the third-century theologian Pseudo-Dionysius. Overly confident images of the self are shattered, often violently, by the monstrous negations that con...

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Main Author: David Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 2014-05-01
Series:Semiotic Review
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Online Access:https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/15
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