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Thereā (Tm)S No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan
Contributor(s): Badiou, Alain (Author), Cassin, Barbara (Author), Reinhard, Kenneth (Translator)
ISBN: 0231157959     ISBN-13: 9780231157957
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $20.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
- Philosophy | Movements - Post-structuralism
Dewey: 150.195
LCCN: 2016049421
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages
 
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Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality.

In There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan's short text, thinking "with" Lacan about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to knowledge. Cassin considers the relationship of the real to language through a Sophist lens, while the Platonist Badiou unpacks philosophical claims about truth. Each of their contributions echoes back to one another, offering new ways of thinking about Lacan, his seminal ideas, and his role in advancing philosophical thought.

Contributor Bio(s): Badiou, Alain: - Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).