Between Levinas and Lacan

Self, Other, Ethics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvMari Ruti

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Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-07-30
Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781628926408

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Preface 1. Breaking the Obstinacy of Being: Levinas’s Ethics of the Face 2. The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism 3. The Lacanian Rebuttal: Žižek, Badiou, and Revolutionary Politics 4. Acts of Defiance: Resistance and Rebellion in Lacan and Marcuse 5. Beyond the Impasses: The Need for Normative Limits Notes BibliographyIndex

Ruti brilliantly elucidates a wholly original and utterly compelling argument for rethinking the post-Enlightenment ethical subject. She does this by demonstrating how some of our most deeply held theoretical paradigms hinge on false oppositions: between the universal and the singular; the subject and the other; agency and subjectivity. Like a magical tour guide, Ruti takes us on a completely fresh journey through previously familiar lands, unsettling received wisdoms so comprehensively and so sensibly that it becomes impossible to recall how one could have ever seen it otherwise.