Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics

by Mari Ruti

Book Overview

Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.

At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they are, particularly in their understanding of the self-other relationship. For both Levinas and Lacan, the subject's relationship to the other is primary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628926392
• ISBN13: 9781628926392
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"