Ed Pluth is professor and chair of the philosophy department at California State University, Chico, USA. He works on issues and figures in contemporary continental philosophy, with special attention to how language and the extra-linguistic are put into relation to each other, and what this relation implies generally about the status of thinking and conscious life.
See catalogue number 28060 for the paperback edition. Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In "Signifiers and Acts" Ed Pluth... (more)
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In "Signifiers and Acts" Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue... (more)
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested... (more)