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vol. 7

The Myth of the Other: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille

Franco Rella

Nelson Moe, trans.

Library of Congress Catalog Number B2421.R43

127 pages

Publication date May 1, 1994

Library binding $29.95 ISBN 0-944624-20-0 or ISBN-13 9780944624203

Paperback $12.95 ISBN 0-944624-21-9 of ISBN-13 9780944624210

Franco Rella came of age as a philosopher in Italy during the period of the “crisis of reason” or more generally the exhaustion of classical rationality in its authority to structure experience. For Rella, unlike many others, the tensions of the crisis are productive. In The Myth of the Other, he presents a unique perspective on four seminal French thinkers: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and Bataille. Moe’s masterful translation brings this remarkable Italian thinker to American readers for the first time. This slim book may very well change the way American scholars think about the crisis of the other and the self coming our of French poststructuralism.

“Rella joins Foucault, Lacan, Bataille where others would divide them, reading them for philosophical solace post Marx. Nelson Moe provides a beautiful translation of difficult thinking.”

— Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley.

“Lucid and sparkling, this Italo-German view of French Theory has a philosophical freshness that the European Community has not yet been able to duplicate. . . . Rella’s ‘logic of the fragment’ may turn out to be the most exciting contribution to Marxist aesthetics in years.”

— Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University

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