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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822318103321

Autore

Simms Karl

Titolo

Ricoeur and Lacan / Karl Simms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2007

ISBN

1-4725-4739-X

1-4411-6395-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in continental philosophy series

Disciplina

194

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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