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November 3, 2020

New Book Tuesday! What Would Nature Do?, Aging Behind Prison Walls, Critique on the Couch and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times Ruth DeFries Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these...

September 25, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Redemption, The Freedom Schools, Where Are the Women? and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Redemption Friedrich Gorenstein. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better Sarah Tyson The Freedom Schools Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement...

May 9, 2014

Badiou and Roudinesco on Lacan's Legacy

“[T]he contemporary world is haunted by uncertainty, disorientation, and the specter of permanent crisis. And Lacan is a great thinker of disorder.” – Alain Badiou This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain...

May 8, 2014

More from Badiou and Roudinesco

This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. Today, we are taking a look back at previous works by both Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. We have excerpts from...

May 7, 2014

"I Am Counting on the Tourbillon": On the Late Lacan, by Jason E. Smith

“If Lacan’s rightly celebrated Seminar VII from 1959-60 elaborates a properly psychoanalytic ethics through the intransigent figure of Antigone and her refusal to give way on her desire, Badiou and Roudinesco emphasize instead a certain ethical and tragic dimension to...

May 6, 2014

One Master, Two Encounters, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco

Read an excerpt from “One Master, Two Encounters,” the first chapter of JACQUES LACAN, PAST AND PRESENT, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco.

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