192 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced, relational account of what it is to be human, and in doing so puts forward a significant new theory... Read more
1 What’s Real? Butler, Fish, Lyotard 2 Psychoanalysis Beyond Idealism: Hegel, Lacan, Freud 3 The Lacanian Real 4 Z?iz?ek Against Lacan 5 Culture’s Magic Circle 6 Making Space: Perspective Vision and the Real 7 Desire and the Missing Viewer 8 The Real and the Sublime: Kant, Lyotard, Lacan 9 Sublime or Sublimation? Towards a Theory of Culture
Biography
Catherine Belsey is Distinguished Research Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University.
'These books, more revenant that remnant, demonstrate a body of work that will not lie down, that continues its conversation with culture and the real, and reasserts deconstruction as being not a fad whose time has come, but a way of noticing what goes on when we use language now and then, as it happens, when it counts.'
- John Coyle, Glasgow University, Scotland
