The Metastases of Enjoyment

The Metastases of Enjoyment
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781844670611

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A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.

The Metastases of Enjoyment

The Metastases of Enjoyment
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1789605350

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The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author's analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of The Crying Game and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations.

The Metastases of Enjoyment

The Metastases of Enjoyment
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 221
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy, Marxist
ISBN:

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Organs without Bodies

Organs without Bodies
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135207704

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The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film (Hitchcock, Fight Club ), and psychoanalysis. Of Organs without Bodies Joan Copjec (Imagine There's No Woman ) has written: With all his ususal humor and invention, Zizek -- the acknowledged master of the 180 degree turn -- here takes a trip into enemy territory to deliver Deleuze of a marvelously rebellious child, one that seriously challenges Deleuze's other progeny with a surprising but convincing bid for succession. Those who thought Deleuze's forward march into the future would follow a straight path are forced to rethink their stance. From now on all readings of Deleuze will have to take a detour through this important -- even necessary -- book. Eric Santner (On the Psychopathology of Everyday Life ) describes Organs without Bodies as offering an entirely new degree of conceptual clarity and political urgency. Through his deep engagement with the logic of Deleuze's project, Zizek opens up new possibilities of thought beyond the terms of the current political debates on globalization, democratization, war on terror. Once again, Zizek has produced an utterly timely and radically untimely meditation. Recently profiled in The New Yorker , and hailed by the Village Voice as the giant of Ljubljana, Zizek is one of the most provocative and entertaining thinkers at work today.

The Sublime Object of Ideology

The Sublime Object of Ideology
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1989
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780860919711

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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.

The Abyss of Freedom

The Abyss of Freedom
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472066520

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An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft

The Idea of Communism 3

The Idea of Communism 3
Author: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 178478396X

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An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as well as work from across Asia, notably from Chinese scholar Wang Hui, offering regional perspectives on communism in an era of global economic crisis and political upheaval.

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate
Author: Susan Haack
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2000-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226311371

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PrefaceIntroduction 1: Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig 2: "We Pragmatists ...": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation 3: As for that phrase "studying in a literary spirit" ... 4: "Dry Truth and Real Knowledge": Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology 5: Puzzling Out Science 6: Science as Social? - Yes and No 7: Knowledge and Propaganda: Reflections of an Old Feminist 8: Multiculturalism and Objectivity 9: Reflections on Relativism: From Momentous Tautology to Seductive Contradiction 10: The best man for the job may be a woman ... and other alien thoughts on affirmative action in the academy 11: Preposterism and Its Consequences Acknowledgments Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real

Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1781680191

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Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.