Download or read book Levinas and Lacan written by Sarah Harasym and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinas and Lacan traces the similar concepts and logics of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, to explicitly render the rigorous questioning of the philosophic tradition undertaken by these thinkers, and to articulate the theoretical stakes and practical consequences of such a conjunction for ethics. In this book, contemporary philosophers examine this missed encounter between Levinas and Lacan by tracing their preoccupation with issues that emerge in late modernity: language, subjectivity, alterity, and ethics.