Professor Belsey explains the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human.

Catherine Belsey is Distinguished Research Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University.

1 What's Real? Butler, Fish, Lyotard 2 Psychoanalysis Beyond Idealism: Hegel, Lacan, Freud 3 The Lacanian Real 4 Z?iz?ek Against Lacan 5 Culture's Magic Circle 6 Making Space: Perspective Vision and the Real 7 Desire and the Missing Viewer 8 The Real and the Sublime: Kant, Lyotard, Lacan 9 Sublime or Sublimation? Towards a Theory of Culture