Desire and Its Discontents

by Eugene Goodheart

Book Overview

This treatise engages in a discourse with both academic and general culture in an effort to discriminate amongst the discourses of desire: Marcuse's rationalism of desire; Lacan's celebration of tragedy; and the position of desire in Foucault's early and later writings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231076436
• ISBN13: 9780231076432
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"