
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Metaphysics and Hysteria: A Clinical Overview
- Part Two: Politics and Obsession
- Part Three: Numbers and Things
- Notes
- Subject Index
- Name Index