"The Fragmentation of Culture and the End of the Subject". São Paulo: Loyola Editions: 2012. By Rogério Miranda de Almeida, the author of "Nietzsche and Paradox". Albany: SUNY Press: 2006 (hardback) and 2007 (paperback).

This book tries to show that the fragmentation of culture is not a privilege of modern and postmodern times. On the contrary, it is already found among the Pre-Socratic philosophers, as well as the philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) of the classical Greek period. The author also demonstrates that - differently from the prejudice according to which the Middle Ages represents a monolithic and harmonious thought - what we find in it and, principally, during the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, is a very dispersed and fragmentary cultural production. By the way, the quantity of philosophical and theological Summas that characterizes the XIIIth century is already a simptom and an indication of the highest degree of dispersion that the philosophical and theological thought had reached. There are also two chapters dedicated respectively to the Renaissance and to Modern and Postmodern Ages. The last chapter analyzes the question of the "end of the subject" from the Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytical point of view.