Ricoeur and Lacan Karl Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Karl, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in continental philosophy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricœur, Paul.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first comparative study of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalayst Jacques Lacan. The book explores the conflict between the two thinkers that arose from their differing views of ethics: Ricoeur's universalist stance drew on a phenomenological reading of Kant, whereas Lacan's was a relativist position, derived from a psychoanalytic reading of Freud and de Sade. Ricoeur and Lacan gives a full critical overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. Not only a valuable and original addition to the literature on two major thinkers, Ricoeur and Lacan is also an important study of contemporary Continental ethics

Contents:

1.Introduction

2. The Cogito and its Detractors

3. From the Cogito to the Unconscious

4. The Unconscious and Language

5. From the Symbolic to the Ethical

6. The Law of the Subject and the Law of the Other

7. Ethics Following Ricoeur

8. Ethics After Lacan

9. Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472547392

147254739X

9781441163950

1441163956

OCLC:

1138545944