[PDF] The Essential Zizek eBook

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844673278

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The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 1989
Category : 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 Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : 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
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781859842911

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With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781859843260

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Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1844674290

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Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : 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
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781859844250

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Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the obverse, the twin, of the Rightist Fascist dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, _i_ek’s book addresses totalitarianism in a Wittgensteinian way, as a cobweb of family resemblances. He concludes that the devil lies not so much in the detail of what constitutes totalitarianism as in what enables the very designation totalitarian: the liberal-democratic consensus itself.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1992-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780262740159

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Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0312427182

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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.