Subtitled, }Poststructuralist Thought & The Claims For Critical Theory{. This is an attack on the thought of Derrida and Lacan A work, which presents an attack on the thoughts of Derrida, Foucault and Lacan. Preface and Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Jacques Derrida: The Transcendental and Difference 1(54) Derrida and Husserlian Phenomenology 5(8) Deconstruction, Hermeneutics and the Transcendental 13(10) Derrida and German Idealism 23(7) Differance and the Regress of Reflection 30(8) Meaning and the Self 38(3) The Politics of Deconstruction 41(5) Derrida, Adorno and Heidegger 46(9) Jacques Lacan: A Philosophical Rethinking of Freud 55(52) The Early Lacan 60(13) Language, Subjectivity and Historicity 73(12) The Influence of Structuralism 85(14) Lacan's Reformulation of Basic Concepts 99(8) Lacan and Derrida: Individuality and Symbolic Order 107(27) Lacan and Derrida on Language and Meaning 112(14) The Symbolic, Power and Desire 126(8) Jean-Francois Lyotard: From Perception to Desire 134(42) Discourse and its Other in Lyotard 137(9) Lyotard and Lacan on the Unconscious 146(11) The Politics of Desire 157(12) The Impasse of Libidinal Economy 169(7) Michel Foucault: Power and Subjectivity 176(32) Foucault and the Frankfurt School 183(14) Power and Resistance 197(11) Michel Foucault: Power and Knowledge 208(35) Foucault and Nietzsche 215(11) Genealogy and the Critique of Ideology 226(8) Foucault and Habermas 234(9) Foucault and Lyotard: The Politics of Truth 243(26) Nietzsche on Truth 247(3) Perspectivism in Foucault and Lyotard 250(10) The Reflexive Problem 260(4) The Return to Truth 264(5) Conclusion: Intersubjectivity and the Logic of Disintegration 269(29) The Logic of Disintegration 274(2) The Move to Intersubjectivity 276(3) The Position of Post-structuralism 279(8) Lacan and Habermas on Intersubjectivity 287(11) Notes 298(29) Index 327