Signifiers and Acts
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Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject(SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)

Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject(SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)


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Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In Signifiers and Acts, Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue that Lacan's theory of the subject is best read as a theory of freedom and agency-a theory that is especially compelling precisely because of its structuralist and seemingly antihumanist framework. Presenting new aspects of Lacan's work and commenting extensively on the important yet unpublished seminars that still make up the majority of his contribution to contemporary thought, the book aims to make a Lacanian intervention into contemporary theory. In addition to Saussure, Sartre, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, Pluth discusses works in political theory and identity theory by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zðizûek.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Lacan's Subversion of the Subject 2. The First Thesis 3. Identity, or the Subject-as-Meaning 4. The Second Thesis 5. The Fundamental Fantasy 6. How Acts Use Signifiers 7. Badiou and Zizek on Acts and Subjects 8. An Act beyond Recognition Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ed Pluth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico.

Review :
"Pluth reviews Lacan's definitions of the trace, the sign, and the signifier, and provides formulations of metaphor and metonymy that nicely underscore the gap between signifier and signified." - Philosophy in Review "This highly original volume will leave an indelible mark on the rapidly developing field of Lacanian studies. Pluth has an excellent knowledge of both published and unpublished Lacanian sources, and he manages to integrate Lacanian theory and current philosophical thinking without sacrificing discursive clarity and scholarly rigor. Apart from demonstrating the ongoing relevance of Lacan's work for a wide variety of topical debates, Pluth also succeeds in showing how influential philosophical paradigms such as those formulated by Deleuze, Badiou, Nancy, and Zdizuek cannot be understood without reference to Lacan." - Dany Nobus, author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791472439
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 206
  • Series Title: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
  • Sub Title: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791472434
  • Publisher Date: 04 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 417 gr


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