Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781844673278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.
The Essential Zizek
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781844673278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781844673278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.
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.
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
The Ticklish Subject
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859842911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859842911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Fragile Absolute, Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
In Defense of Lost Causes
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674290
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674290
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Mapping Ideology
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844675548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
For a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice. Mapping Ideology is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844675548
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
For a long time, the term ‘ideology’ was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory, and to political practice. Mapping Ideology is a comprehensive reader covering the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859844250
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the Rightist Fascist dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, _i_ek’s book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. He concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail of what constitutes totalitarianism as in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859844250
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the Rightist Fascist dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, _i_ek’s book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. He concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail of what constitutes totalitarianism as in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.
Less Than Nothing
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844678970
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844678970
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
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.