The likeness semblance and self in Slovene society

"The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that Slovenes provide a remarkable counterbalance to Western notions of a divided inner and outer self by playing with surface level resemb...

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Main Author: Bakke, Gretchen Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0520974174
9780520974173
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: andandpersand
  • Introduction. Of semblances and . . .
  • Of selves
  • A break in the pattern. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986
  • Walter Benjamin (et. al.) speaks his mind, Ljubljana, 1986, (2001, 2003)
  • Technologies of self-protection
  • "By the very cunning of the scene"
  • Portraits of a three-headed mountain (1968, 2004, 2007)
  • Two in the same : Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
  • This is going to hurt a little
  • Is Slavoj Žižek full of shit?
  • More on the same subject
  • Inside the body is blood and bone
  • " . . . Or at least fail while trying"
  • Afterword : Melanija Trump (née Knavs)