Authors: Ed Pluth
ISBN-13: 9780791472446, ISBN-10: 0791472442
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: June 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ed Pluth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University at Chico.
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.
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