Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's a
Žižek now!
✍ Scribed by Khader, Jamil;Rothenberg, Molly Anne;Molly Anne Rothenberg
- Publisher
- Wiley;Polity Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors ix Part One Introduction: ?i?ek Now or Never: Ideological Critique and the Nothingness of Being Jamil Khader 3 1 ?i?ek s Sublime Objects Now Ian Parker 16 Part Two 2 Hegel as Marxist: ?i?ek s Revision of German Idealism Todd McGowan 31 3 ?i?ek and Christianity: Or the Critique of Religion after Marx and Freud Bruno Bosteels 54 4 Ceremonial Contingencies and the Ambiguous Rites of Freedom Joshua Ramey 84 Part Three 5 A Critique of Natural Economy: Quantum Physics with ?i?ek Adrian Johnston 103 6 Slavoj ?i?ek s Eco-Chic Verena Andermatt Conley 121 7 ?i?ek and Fanon: On Violence and Related Matters Erik Vogt 140 8 ?i?ek s Infi delity: Lenin, the National Question, and the Postcolonial Legacy of Revolutionary Internationalism Jamil Khader 159 Part Four 9 King, Rabble, Sex, and War in Hegel Slavoj ?i?ek 177 Index 207
✦ Subjects
Aufsatzsammlung;Žižek, Slavoj, -- 1949
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