Lacan And The Nonhuman (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

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.

• | Author: Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Michael Dickstein
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 295 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3319876449
• | ISBN-13: 9783319876443