The insistence of the imaginary
Introduction: The mirror stage
Sentiment and sensibility
Francis Hutcheson and David Hume
Edmund Burke and Adam Smith
The sovereignty of the symbolic
Introduction: The symbolic order
Spinoza and the death of desire
Law and desire in measure for measure
Introduction: Pure desire
Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Levinas, Derrida and Badiou
The banality of goodness.