{"product_id":"lacan-the-silent-partners-9781844675494","title":"Lacan: The Silent Partners","description":"Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and the arts, but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking, so crucial to its proper understanding? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLacan: The Silent Partners\u003c\/i\u003e Slavoj Žižek, the maverick theorist and pre-eminent Lacan scholar, has marshalled some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of Lacan's work. Focussing on Lacan's 'silent partners', those who are the hidden inspiration to Lacanian theory, they discuss his work in relation to the Pre-Socratics, Diderot, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schelling, Hölderlin, Wagner, Turgenev, Kafka, Henry James and Artaud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis major collection, including three essays by Žižek, marks a new era in the study of this unsettling thinker, breathing new life into his classic work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGilles Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Sarkozy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetapolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolemics, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Hypothesis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Lessons on Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruno Bosteels\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBadiou and Politics, Marx and Freud in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Actuality of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently serves as the General Editor of \u003ci\u003eDiacritics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Copjec\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at the State University of New York, Buffalo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlenka Zupan?i?\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in the Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljublijana\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985424810258,"sku":"9781844675494","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_109ee798-c6cc-4c95-a529-860e07ce302f.jpg?v=1769534585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lacan-the-silent-partners-9781844675494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}