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Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject »
Authors: Ed Pluth
ISBN-13: 9780791472439, ISBN-10: 0791472434
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: October 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ed Pluth
Ed Pluth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University at Chico.
Book Synopsis
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Lacan's Subversion of the Subject 9
Chapter 2 The First Thesis 23
Chapter 3 Identity, or the Subject-as-Meaning 45
Chapter 4 The Second Thesis 57
Chapter 5 The Fundamental Fantasy 81
Chapter 6 How Acts Use Signifiers 97
Chapter 7 Badiou and Zizek on Acts and Subjects 115
Chapter 8 An Act beyond Recognition 139
Conclusion 157
Notes 165
Bibliography 173
Index 187
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