Books by Justin Clemens

Justin Clemens examines psychoanalysis under the rubric of 'antiphilosophy': a practice that offers the strongest possible challenges to thought. Drawing on the work of Badiou, Freud, Lacan, Zizek and Agamben, he examines the relationships of humans to drugs, animality and sexuality, and to torture, slavery and swarming.

The main contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic. Despite protestations to the contrary and despite all attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed by Romantic thought, Clemens demonstrates its continuing influence in philosophical and literary works.