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This volume seeks to address a number of broad questions, including: what is the role and limit of urban space in the expression of group and individual rights and desires?, do democratic social relations require spatial propinquity?, and what are the characteristics of democratic urban space?

Based on the concept of radical evil, an evil at the very heart of the ethical problematic, this book focuses on the modern or political notion of evil as it takes shape in Kant, as it is prefigured by Machiavelli and later developed by Schelling.

A collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics.

Umbr(a) was one of the most important US theory journals of the 1990s and early 2000s, publishing work by some of the greatest philosophers, psychoanalysts and theorists of our era. In every regard, it was ahead of the curve - in content, design, and style - often introducing thinkers who have subsequently become globally influential. This anthology presents a selection of the very best of Umbr(a), including contributions from Joan Copjec, Sam...

These essays examine "film noir" in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, attempting to move beyond the views of the early French critics. Topics range from the re-emergence of "noir" in films such as "Bladerunner", to the relations between the sexes and the role of women.

In Lies mein Begehren führt Joan Copjec eine Konfrontation zwischen Jacques Lacan und Michel Foucault herbei, den Protagonisten zweier beherrschender moderner Diskurse - Psychoanalyse und Historismus. Die Autorin geht mit der Psychoanalyse Jacques Lacans in die Offensive und weigert sich, die Geschichte den Historisten zu überlassen. Sie legt auf verschiedenen kulturellen Feldern ein Beweisverfahren an, in dem es um die Überlegenheit von Laca...

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to cede historicity to the historicists, Copjec make...

Giving Ground is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and ignites violent persecutions. The covert relation between these phen...