Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation b
Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics. Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Masschelein (literary theory and cultural studies, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium) explores the place of unease and discomfort, as described by Sigmund Freud, in the literature and literary theory dur
