Finn, Geraldine

Why Althusser Killed His Wife : Essays on Discourse and Violence

These essays explore and analyze issues of contemporary cultural concern: science, rationality, sex, violence, representation, ethics, politics, and spirituality. Although not always explicit, the perspective elaborated in and through them draws on an extensive knowledge of and familiarity with twentieth-century European philosophy, especially the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the ethical and political writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, and the deconstructive project of Jacques Derrida.