Lacan and the Nonhuman

286 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic – the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject; explore implications of Lacanian teachings in relation to the environment, freedom, and biopolitics; and investigate the subjective enjoyments of and anxieties over nonhumans in literature, film, and digital media. This innovative volume fills a valuable gap in the literature, extending investigations into an important and topical strand of the social sciences for both analytic and pedagogical purposes.

• Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• ISBN: 9783319876443
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2019
• Genre: Philosophie/Sonstiges
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Michael Dickstein