Lacan and the Nonhuman

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Basu Thakur, Gautam (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dickstein, Jonathan Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Psychoanalysis.; Ontology.; Existentialism.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Self and Identity.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

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 un...