Culture and the real : theorizing cultural criticism / Catherine Belsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belsey, Catherine.

Series:

New accents (Routledge (Firm))

New accents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Reality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; What's Real? Butler, Fish, Lyotard; Psychoanalysis Beyond Idealism: Hegel, Lacan, Freud; The Lacanian Real; iek Against Lacan; Culture's Magic Circle; Making Space: Perspective Vision and the Real; Desire and the Missing Viewer; The Real and the Sublime: Kant, Lyotard, Lacan; Sublime or Sublimation? Towards a Theory of Culture; FURTHER READING; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-168) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-52720-9

1-134-52721-7

1-280-10183-0

0-203-00144-3

9780203001448

OCLC:

475914608