Slavoj Zizek by Ian Parker

Shows a clear path through the twists and turns of Zizek's writings. While Parker is never hastily dismissive of Zizek's innovations, he remains critical throughout, aware that the energy of Zizek's writing can be bewitching and beguiling as well as engaging and profound. Top page

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Since the publication of his first book in English in 1989, Slavoj Zizek has quickly become one of the most widely read and contentious intellectuals alive today. With dazzling wit and tremendous creativity he has produced innovative and challenging explorations of Lacan, Hegel and Marx, and used his insights to exhilarating effect in analyses of popular culture. While Zizek is always engaging, he is also elusive and even contradictory. It can be very hard to finally determine where he stands on a particular issue. Is Zizek Marxist or Post-Marxist? How seriously should we take his recent turn to Christianity? Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction shows the reader a clear path through the twists and turns of Zizek's writings. Ian Parker takes Zizek's treatment of Hegel, Lacan and Marx in turn and outlines and assesses Zizek's interpretation and extension of these thinkers' theories. While Parker is never hastily dismissive of Zizek's innovations, he remains critical throughout, aware that the energy of Zizek's writing can be bewitching and beguiling as well as engaging and profound. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Pluto Press

City: London

Pages: 184

More info: height 220 mm width 139 mm weight 386 gr thickness 19 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 199.4973 Library of Congress Subject: B4870.Z594

Summary Slavoj Zizek Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: something retroactive and some anticipation; Zizek's sublime objects; Mapping this book; Some indivisible reminders; 1. Yugoslavia - to Slovenia; The perfection of the state; Brotherhood and unity; The Slovene springs; 2. Enlightenment - with Hegel; The thing with Hegel; Revolutionary fracture; Redemptive closure; 3. Psychoanalysis - from Lacan; The disappearing subject; The object of analysis; Clinic of the world; 4. Politics - repeating Marx; Against the rules of the game; Community and enmity; Did somebody say Marxism? 5. Culture - acting out; Zizek's just desserts; Asymmetry: machine, object, application; The wrong man; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index Top page

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