TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belsey,Catherine
TI  - Culture and the real: theorizing cultural criticism 
SN  - 9780415252898
U1  - 306 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Culture
KW  - Reality
N1  - This book explains with Professor Belsey's characteristic lucidity the views of recent theorists, including Jean-Frantois Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, as well as their debt to the earlier work of Kant and Hegel, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human. To explore the human, she demonstrates, is to acknowledge the relationship between culture and what we don't know: not the familiar world picture presented to us by culture as 'reality', but the unsayable, or the strange region that lies beyond culture, which Lacan has called 'the real'. Culture, she argues, registers a sense of its own limits in ways more subtle than the theorists allow
ER  -