Description
| Product ID: | 9781781688885 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers |
| Title: | Read My Desire |
| Subtitle: | Lacan Against the Historicists |
| Authors: | Author: Joan Copjec |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Social theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Pits the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan against the historicist approach of Michel Foucault to develop a profound critique of historicism In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to cede history to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the superiority of Lacan’s explanation of historical processes and generative principles. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural critique, one that is “literate in desire,” and capable of interpreting what is unsaid in the manifold operations of culture. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-06-09 |
