Truth and eros : Foucault, Lacan, and the question of ethics / John Rajchman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajchman, John, author.

Series:

Rouledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault

Routledge library editions.Michel Foucault ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Ethics--France.

Ethics.

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this reissused work, first published in 1991, John Rajchman isolates the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. He demonstrates that the question of ethics was at once the most difficult and the most intimate question for these two authors, offering a complex point of intersection between them. As such, he argues that it belongs to the great tradition that is concerned with the passion or eros of philosophy and of its ""will to truth"".Truth and Eros suggests a way of reading Foucault and L

Contents:

pt. 1. Lacan

pt. 2. Foucault.

Notes:

First published in 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-17445-8

1-283-96635-2

0-203-09280-5

1-135-17446-6

9780203092804

OCLC:

826854702