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The Subject of Liberation: ?i?ek, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Autor Charles Wells

Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING

The Subject of Liberation: ?i?ek, Politics, Psychoanalysis
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The book shares ?i?ek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist thought is divided by antagonism between a Marx...

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  • Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
  • ISBN13 9781501317316
  • ISBN10 1501317318
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 245
  • Año de Edición 2016
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Rústica

The Subject of Liberation: ?i?ek, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Autor Charles Wells

Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING

The book shares ?i?ek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist thought is divided by antagonism between a Marx...

-5% dto.    27,50€
26,12€
Ahorra 1,37€
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Envío gratis
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The book shares ?i?ek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist thought is divided by antagonism between a Marxist revolutionary politics founded on Enlightenment philosophy and a politics of identity founded on post-modern post-structuralism.

How ?i?ek used Lacan's theory of character structures is examined here to describe this theoretical deadlock and explain how the dominant contemporary ideologies of liberal tolerant multiculturalism and reactionary "pseudo-fundamentalism" compete to mobilize the individual subject's unconscious drive to enjoyment. The book thus emphasizes the moments in which ?i?ek hints that Lacanian theory may describe a practice that facilitates the resolution of antagonisms that placate radical leftist politics. It challenges prevalent interpretations of Lacanian ends of analysis, to ultimately connect the psychoanalytic cure to the leftist project of social and political liberation. 

The Subject of Liberation argues that if Lacan is to be useful to leftist politics, then the left has to develop its own definitions of the post-analytic subject, and proposes one such definition developed out of Lacanian and ?i?ekian theory.

Charles Wells is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada.