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Lacan and the political

Author: Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series: Thinking the political.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The author clearly examines Jacques Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint, and overviews the social and political implications of Lacan's work as a whole.
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Named Person: Jacques Lacan; Jacques Lacan; Jacques Lacan
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yannis Stavrakakis
ISBN: 0415171865 9780415171861 0415171873 9780415171878
OCLC Number: 40452979
Description: x, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Lacanian subject : the impossibility of identity and the centrality of identification --
The Lacanian object : dialectics of social impossibility --
Encircling the political : towards a Lacanian political theory --
Beyond the fantasy of utopia : the aporia of politics and the challenge of democracy --
Ambiguous democracy and the ethics of psychoanalysis.
Series Title: Thinking the political.
Responsibility: Yannis Stavrakakis.
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The author clearly examines Jacques Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint, and overviews the social and political implications of Lacan's work as a whole.

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