Joan Copjec: 2 books
Read My Desire
Lacan Against the Historicists
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis...
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles,...