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Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety. It offers a critique of progressive theory's tendency to advance extreme models of revolt that have little real-life applicability. The chapters move fluidly between several theoretical registers, the most obvious of these being continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, Butlerian ethics, affect theory, and queer theory. One of the central aims of Distillations is to explore the largely uncharted territory between psychoanalysis and affect theory, which are frequently pitted against each other as hopelessly incompatible, but which Ruti shows can be brought into a productive dialogue. ** Review "Insofar as there might be a Lacanian struggle with Alain Badiou, this would centre on what explicitly does Badiou preserve of psychoanalysis in his theory of the event? Mari Ruti confronts this question in two ways--first, by reinvigorating and privileging the v

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Author

Mari Ruti

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501333811

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Humanities