PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Mari Ruti (PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of five academic books: Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (2006); A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (2009); The Summons of Love (2011); The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (2012); and The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (2013).
Ruti brilliantly elucidates a wholly original and utterly compelling argument for rethinking the post-Enlightenment ethical subject. She does this by demonstrating how some of our most deeply held theoretical paradigms hinge on false oppositions: between the universal and the singular; the subject and the other; agency and subjectivity. Like a magical tour guide, Ruti takes us on a completely fresh journey through previously familiar lands, unsettling received wisdoms so comprehensively and so sensibly that it becomes impossible to recall how one could have ever seen it otherwise. * Jennifer Friedlander, Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor and Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College, USA * An extraordinarily balanced book. By showing that Lacan and Levinas are both influenced by the enlightenment conception of subjectivity, Between Levinas and Lacan is one of the first books to bridge the theoretical divide between Lacanians and Levinasians, finding common ground where there is normally animosity and mistrust. It engages and explains these thinkers in a very accessible, and even often charming way, without sacrificing the complexity of anyone's thought. It's an impressive work of scholarship and a worthwhile guide to contemporary ethical debates. * Stefan Bird-Pollan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA, and Fulbright Professor for Humanities and Social Science 2014-2015, University of Vienna, Austria *
