Engaging two influential, contemporaneous, and yet heterogeneous bodies of thought, Lacan and Foucault, the authors chart distinct trajectories at the peak of French structuralism whose comparison is crucial to understanding the contours and stakes of critical theory today.
Although these two thinkers have had a number of direct encounters, this volume seeks to stage another encounter in the present, which grounds their divergences and confluences in relationship to the topics of sexuality, the theory of the subject, history and historicism, scientific formalization, and ultimately politics.