This seminar grapples with an ongoing critical conversation whose starting points are Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. Much as Freud, for example, returns to and departs from Nietzsche and Marx in inaugurating psychoanalysis, so also do subsequent theorists respond to their predecessors, supplementing, revising or contesting their critiques. These theorists are likely to include: Foucault, Balibar, Spillers, Hartman, Butler, Bhabha, Rubin and Lowe.