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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Lacan and political theory

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 [...]

Newsworthy Philosophy

Kwame Anthony Appiah has an article in the New York Times Magazine on experimental philosophy.