The Palgrave Lacan Series

Basu Thakur, Gautam; Dickstein, Jonathan Michael

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-01-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319638164

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63817-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 286