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Between Levinas and Lacan
By Mari Ruti
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Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2015-07-30
Publication Date:
2015-07-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1628926406
ISBN13:
9781628926408
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Weight:
436 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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