Between Levinas and Lacan
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62892-639-2 (ISBN)
At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they are, particularly in their understanding of the self-other relationship. For both Levinas and Lacan, the subject’s relationship to the other is primary in the sense that the subject, literally, does not exist without the other, but they see the challenge of ethics quite differently: while Levinas laments our failure to adequately meet the ethical demand arising from the other, Lacan laments the consequences of our failure to adequately escape the forms this demand frequently takes.
Although this book outlines the major differences between Levinas and Judith Butler on the one hand and Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, and Alain Badiou on the other, Ruti proposes that underneath these differences one can discern a shared concern with the thorny relationship between the singularity of experience and the universality of ethics.
Between Levinas and Lacan is an important new book for anyone interested in contemporary theory, ethics, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory.
Mari Ruti is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of, among other books, A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (2009), The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (2012), and The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes (2015).
Preface
1. Breaking the Obstinacy of Being: Levinas’s Ethics of the Face
2. The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism
3. The Lacanian Rebuttal: Žižek, Badiou, and Revolutionary Politics
4. Acts of Defiance: Resistance and Rebellion in Lacan and Marcuse
5. Beyond the Impasses: The Need for Normative Limits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Verlagsort | New York |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 281 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-62892-639-2 / 1628926392 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-62892-639-2 / 9781628926392 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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