Lacan Contra Foucault

Nadia Bou Ali is Assistant Professor at the Civilization Studies Program, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Rohit Goel is Academic Director of Jnana Pravaha, Centre for Cultural Studies and Research, Varanasi, India and Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA.

• Introduction: ‘Measure against Measure: Why Lacan contra Foucault?’ Nadia Bou Ali, merican University of Beirut, LebanonChapter 1: Cutting Off the King’s Head, Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaChapter 2: Author, Subject, Structure: Lacan contra Foucault, Lorenzo Chiesa, European University at St Petersburg, RussiaChapter 3: Better Failures: Science and Psychoanalysis, Samo Tomšic, Humboldt University, GermanyChapter 4: Merely Analogical: Structuralism and the Critique of Political Economy, Anne van Leeuwen, James Madison University, USAChapter 5: Battle Fatigue: Kiarostami and Capitalism, Joan Copjec, Brown University, USAChapter 6: Foucault’s Neo-liberal Post-Marxism, Zdravko Kobe, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaIndex

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