Lacanian Realism

Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury 2008) opened up a new path in the history of philosophy.+? And so whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement it has to be addressed. <i>Lacanian Realism </i>does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Zizek Alain Badiou Saul Newman Todd May Joan Copjec Jacques Rancière and others and; third by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. <i>Lacanian Realism </i>is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy.