Contributions by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Mladen Dolar, Samo Tomšic, Andrea Zevnik, Amanda Holmes, Richard Boothby, Patricia Gherovici, Silvio Carneiro, Vladimir Safatle and Alenka Zupancic
This collection brings together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis from around the world to interrogate Lacan's notion of extimité (extimacy).
Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theory of das Ding. The book offers the theoretical tools for interpreting religious belief and analyzes several faith traditions.
Contributions by Banu Bargu, Sid Hansen, Tamsin Kimoto, María de la Cruz Salvador López, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Brad Elliott Stone and Janos Toevs
The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance.
In The Powers of Sensibility: Adorno, Foucault, and Rancière on Aesthetic Politics, Michael Feola considers the role that aesthetic resources (perception, sensibility, and feeling) can play within a thinking (or rethinking) of emancipatory politics.
