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Article: C. Fred Alford, Levinas, The Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
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- January 1, 2005
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C. Fred Alford, Levinas, The Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 186 pp.
The study of emotions is all the rage in the social sciences and humanities these days, so it was exciting to find C. Fred Alford's newest book Levinas, The Frankfurt School and Psychoanalysis in my mail-box. Alford, a political theorist at the University of Maryland, College Park, is one of the most thoughtful, original and prolific social scientists writing on psychoanalysis today. Levinas's social philosophy has become enormously influential within post-modern circles, especially after a widely discussed endorsement by Derrida. And ...