The other night I was discussing Lacan with a friend who practices psychotherapy, and he suggested that Lacan’s work ‘only makes sense in the clinic.’ We agreed that when philosophers and critical theorists try to invoke Lacan, they inevitably bungle the job. Today, I discovered Andrew Robinson’s nice little takedown of Zizek, Laclau, and Mouffe’s [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Newsworthy Philosophy
Monday, December 10, 2007
Kwame Anthony Appiah has an article in the New York Times Magazine on experimental philosophy.