Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Mirror of Language -- 1 Literature as a Ruthless Excavator of Culture: From the Literary Mode of Being to Lituratterre -- 2 Why is There Lalangue Rather than Nothing? Love of Lugha and Lalangue -- 3 Piercing the Bull's Eye: The Sexual (Non-)Relation -- 4 A Liberal Psycho-theology -- Conclusion: The Abstractions of Homo Economicus: Now a Stomach, Now an Anus -- Notes -- Index
Summary
Nadia Bou Ali shows how a curious relationship was forged between language and politics, one driven both by a desire for modernity and anxiety about it
