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This book provides students and experts alike with a new kind of
introduction to Slavoj Zizek's political theory. Going beyond
recounting Zizek's positions on ideology, capitalism, Leninism,
Stalinism, fascism, and related matters, it offers readers an
argumentative reconstruction of Zizek's ideas which places his
prolific output in critical dialogue with political philosophy,
critical theory, and the history of ideas.But this reconstruction
is also a cautionary tale. It argues that Zizek, since 1995, has
turned away from the Lacanian and Hegelian insights that made his
first works so ground-breaking. Instead, Zizek and Politics
examines how he has come to embrace a much more bleak,
neo-Hobbesian position whose political implications are profoundly
ambivalent.Key Features*Surveys all of Zizek's works from 1989 to
2008, focusing on the way his ideas concerning politics have
developed*Includes concise reconstructions of Zizek's key political
and philosophical ideas including ideology, the subject, the
symptom, the ideological fantasy and the superego*Brings Zizek's
ideas into dialogue with other key political thinkers and
traditions*Situates Zizek's ideas in terms of contemporary
political debates about the nature of justice, democracy, law and
violence*Makes a new argument about Zizek's politics, moving
debates concerning his work on to new terrain and putting the
manifold criticisms of Zizek's work on a new footing
This book provides students and experts alike with a new kind of
introduction to Slavoj Zizek's political theory. Going beyond
recounting Zizek's positions on ideology, capitalism, Leninism,
Stalinism, fascism, and related matters, it offers readers an
argumentative reconstruction of Zizek's ideas which places his
prolific output in critical dialogue with political philosophy,
critical theory, and the history of ideas.But this reconstruction
is also a cautionary tale. It argues that Zizek, since 1995, has
turned away from the Lacanian and Hegelian insights that made his
first works so ground-breaking. Instead, Zizek and Politics
examines how he has come to embrace a much more bleak,
neo-Hobbesian position whose political implications are profoundly
ambivalent.Key Features*Surveys all of Zizek's works from 1989 to
2008, focusing on the way his ideas concerning politics have
developed*Includes concise reconstructions of Zizek's key political
and philosophical ideas including ideology, the subject, the
symptom, the ideological fantasy and the superego*Brings Zizek's
ideas into dialogue with other key political thinkers and
traditions*Situates Zizek's ideas in terms of contemporary
political debates about the nature of justice, democracy, law and
violence*Makes a new argument about Zizek's politics, moving
debates concerning his work on to new terrain and putting the
manifold criticisms of Zizek's work on a new footing
Set against the collapse of social theory into a theory of
ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous
mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist
implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a
detailed and immanent critique Boucher concentrates his critical
attention on the 'postmarxism' of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and i
ek. Combining close reading and careful exposition with polemical
intent, Boucher links the relativism exemplified in these
contemporary theoretical trends to unresolved philosophical
problems of modernity. In conclusion Boucher points to
'intersubjectivity' as an exit from postmarxist theory's charmed
circle of ideology.
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