Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lost highway (Motion picture)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lost highway (Motion picture)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lost highway (Motion picture)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860919711
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj _i_ek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock’s Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author’s acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. _i_ek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a ‘post-ideological’ world ignores the fact that ‘even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them’. Rejecting postmodernism’s unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, The Sublime Object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860919711
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj _i_ek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock’s Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author’s acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. _i_ek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a ‘post-ideological’ world ignores the fact that ‘even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them’. Rejecting postmodernism’s unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, The Sublime Object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek
Author: Russell Sbriglia
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Žižekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Žižek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek affirms Žižek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Žižekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Žižekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Žižek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek affirms Žižek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Žižekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Žižek
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Zizek
Author: Kelsey Wood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118269802
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future Identifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding Explores Zizek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118269802
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future Identifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding Explores Zizek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology
The Grove Book of Art Writing
Author: Martin Gayford
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A collection of thoughts and ideas about art spanning thousands of years, from Pliny the Elder to Picasso.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802137203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A collection of thoughts and ideas about art spanning thousands of years, from Pliny the Elder to Picasso.
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David LynchÕs The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. LynchÕs unique universe of the Òridiculous sublimeÓ is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society. A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture. He offers provocative readings of Casablanca, SchindlerÕs List, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverseÑand as closely linkedÑas ethics, politics, and cyberspace. Slavoj Zizek, a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchock) and In Defense of Lost Causes, among many books. Marek Wieczorek is assistant professor of modern art history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of The Touch of Light: Laser Paintings by Carel Balth.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David LynchÕs The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. LynchÕs unique universe of the Òridiculous sublimeÓ is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society. A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture. He offers provocative readings of Casablanca, SchindlerÕs List, and Life Is Beautiful in the process of examining topics as diverseÑand as closely linkedÑas ethics, politics, and cyberspace. Slavoj Zizek, a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchock) and In Defense of Lost Causes, among many books. Marek Wieczorek is assistant professor of modern art history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of The Touch of Light: Laser Paintings by Carel Balth.
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Sublime in Antiquity
Author: James I. Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 713
Book Description
Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 713
Book Description
Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
Violence
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312427182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312427182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.