| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9781844670611 |
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
The Metastases of Enjoyment
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2020-05-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1789605350 |
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 Universal Exception
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2007-08-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0826495303 |
The second volume of Zizek's collected key writings, this time showcasing his major writings on politics.
Organs without Bodies
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2016-05-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135207704 |
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.
Tarrying with the Negative
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1993-10-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780822313953 |
DIVA theoretical analysis of social conflict that uses examples from Kant, Hegel, Lacan, popular culture and contemporary politics to critique nationalism./div
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2012-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1781680434 |
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik. The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present
The Sublime Object of Ideology
| Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780860919711 |
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 Courage of Hopelessness
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2018-02-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1612190030 |
Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles—and asks whether radical change is possible In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless—that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train—that fundamental change can be brought about. Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics—all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism—Zizek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is,or should be, this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits? “Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation” —The New Yorker
The Idea of Communism 3
| Author | : Alex Taek-Gwang Lee |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2016-07-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 178478396X |
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.
