The Sublime Object Of Ideology
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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.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-01-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781844673278 |
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The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745681441 |
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What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every cliché and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for new ways of answering these questions. When Lacan described Hegel as the ‘most sublime hysteric’, he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come. This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1509536124 |
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No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the ‘general intellect’. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing millions of people to participate in the new form of the ‘general intellect’ that they own and control. But, even if Marx’s analysis can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of global capitalism without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all its dimensions – the commons of nature, the cultural commons, and the commons as the universal space of humanity from which no one should be excluded – remains as relevant as ever. This timely reflection on the enduring relevance of The Communist Manifesto will be of great value to everyone interested in the key questions of radical politics today.
Author | : Adrian Johnston |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2008-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810124564 |
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By taking this avowal seriously, Adrian Johnston finally clarifies the philosophical project underlying Žižek’s efforts.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780822313953 |
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DIVA theoretical analysis of social conflict that uses examples from Kant, Hegel, Lacan, popular culture and contemporary politics to critique nationalism./div
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1844675548 |
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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.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 1049 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1844678970 |
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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.
Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2009-10-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1844674282 |
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From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1844674290 |
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