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Contents: Volume I: Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice 1. Jacques-Alain Miller Paradigms of Jouissance, lacanian Ink 17 pp. 10-47 [2000] 2. Jacqueline Rose The Imaginary, in Colin McCabe, ed., The Talking Cure pp. 132-161 [St. Martin's Press, 1981] 3. Martin Thom The Unconscious Structured as a Language, in Colin McCabe, ed., The Talking Cure pp. 1-44 [St. Martin's Press, 1981] 4. Moustapha Safouan In Praise of Hysteria, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 55-60 [Yale UP, 1980] 5. Gerard Wajeman The Hysteric's Discourse Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 1-22 [1988] 6. Michel Silvestre Conducting the Hysteric's Cure Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 23-33 [1988] 7. Darian Leader, Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post pp. 123-159 [Faber and Faber, 1996] 8. Charles Mehlman On Obsessional Neurosis, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 130-138 [Yale UP, 1980] 9. Jacques-Alain Miller H20: Suture in Obsessionality Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 34-44 [1988] 10. Octave Mannoni Je sais bien, mais quand meme Clefs pour l'imaginaire pp. 9-33 [Editions du Seuil, 1968] 11. Jean Clavreuil The Perverse Couple, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 215-233 [Yale UP, 1980] 12. Jacques-Alain Miller On Perversion, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminars I and II pp. 306-320 [SUNY Press, 1996] 13. Serge Leclaire, Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter, Chapters 5 and 7 [Stanford UP, 1998] 14. Jean Laplanche Interpretation between Determinism and Hermeneutics: a Restatement of the Problem Essays on Otherness pp. 138-165 [Routledge, 1999] 15. Anne Dunand The End of Analysis, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminar XI pp. 243-256 [SUNY Press, 1995] 16. Kirsten Hyldgaard The Cause of the Subject as an Ill-timed Accident: Lacan, Sartre and Aristotle Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious pp. 67-80 [2000] 17. Bruce Fink The Subject and the Other's Desire, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminars I and II pp. 76-97 [SUNY Press, 1996] 18. Jean-Claude Milner The Doctrine of Science Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious 2000: Science and Truth pp. 33-63 Volume II: Philosophy 19. Mladen Dolar Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 11-40 [Duke UP, 1998] 20. Alain Badiou Descartes/Lacan Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious: On Badiou, pp. 13-16, 1996 21. Bernard Baas Le desir pur Ornicar?, No 43, pp. 56-91 [1987] 22. Alenka Zupancic The Subject of the Law, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 41-73 [Duke UP, 1998] 23. Joan Copjec Euthanasia of Reason Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists pp. 201-236 [The MIT Press, 199X] 24. Slavoj Zizek Cogito and the Sexual Difference Tarrying With the Negative pp. 45-80 [Duke UP, 1993] 25. Richard Boothby Figurations of the Objet a, Freud as Philosopher pp. 241-280 [Routledge, 2001] 26. Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan: The Dialectic of Desire, in Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, eds., Interpreting Lacan pp. 75-112 [Yale UP, 1973] 27. Hermann Lang Language and Finitude Language and the Unconscious. Lacan's Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis pp. 135-177 [Humanities Press, 1999] 28. Gilles Deleuze The Logic of Sense pp. 27-48 [Columbia UP, 1990] 29. Barbara Johnson The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida, in John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, eds., The Purloined Poe pp. 457-505 [Johns Hopkins UP, 1988] 30. Jean-Claude Milner, For the Love of Language, Chapters 5, 6 and 7 [MacMillan, 19XX] Volume III: Society, Politics, Ideology 31. Fredric Jameson Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971-1986, Vol. 1 pp. 75-115 [Minnesota UP, 1988] 32. Louis Althusser Freud and Lacan Writings on Psychoanalysis pp. 13-32 [Columbia UP, 1996] 33. Mladen Dolar Lacan and the Uncanny October 58 pp. 5-23 [1991] 34. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen The Freudian Subject: From Politics to Ethics The Emotional Tie pp. 15-35 [Stanford UP, 1992] 35. Gilbert D. Chaitin The Subject and the Symbolic Order: Historicity, Mathematics, Poetry Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan pp. 195-242 [Cambridge UP, 1996] 36. Henry Krips, Fetish: An Erotics of Culture pp. 73-117 [Cornell UP, 1999] 37. Eric Santner Freud's Moses and the Ethics of Nomothropic Desire, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 57-105 [Duke UP, 2000] 38. Alain Grosrichard The Case of Polyphemus, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 117-148 [Duke UP, 1998] 39. Miran Bozovic An Utterly Dark Spot An Utterly Dark Spot pp. 95-120 [The University of Michigan Press, 2000] 40. Yannis Stavrakakis Encircling the Political Lacan And the Political pp. 71-98 [Routledge, 2000] 41. Ernesto Laclau Why do Empty Signifiers Matter to Politics? Emancipation(s), pp. 36-46 [Verso Books, 1995] 42. Yannis Stavrakakis Laclau With Lacan Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious pp. 134-153 [2000] 43. Slavoj Zizek Che vuoi? The Sublime Object of Ideology pp. 87-129 [Verso Books, 1989] 44. Robert Pfaller Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology?, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 225-246 [Duke UP, 1998] 45. Jerry Aline Flieger Is Oedipus On-line?, in Pretexts: studies in writing and culture, Vol. 6 No 1, pp. 81-94 [1997] Volume IV: Culture 46. Jacques-Alain Miller Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 24-34 [1977/78] 47. Alain Badiou Complementary Note On a Contemporary Usage Of Frege Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious 2000: Science and Truth pp. 107-113 [Buffalo] 48. Jean-Pierre Oudart Cinema and Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 35-47 [1977/78] 49. Stephen Heath Notes on Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 48-76 [1977/78] 50. Alain Badiou What Is Love?, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 263-281 [Duke UP, 2000] 51. Alenka Zupancic The Case of the Perforated Sheet, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 282-296 [Duke UP, 2000] 52. Mladen Dolar The Object Voice, in Renata Salecl and Slavoj Zizek, eds., Gaze and Voice as Love Objects pp. 7-31 [Duke UP, 1996] 53. Michel Chion, The Voice in Cinema pp. 17-57 [Columbia UP, 1999] 54. Mary Ann Doane Sublimation and the Psychoanalysis of the Aesthetic Femmes Fatales pp. 249-267 [Routledge, 1991] 55. Pascal Bonitzer Hitchcockian Suspense, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock) pp. 13-30 [Verso Books, 1992] 56. Richard Maltby A Brief Romantic Interlude, in David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, eds., Post-Theory pp. 13-30 [The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996] 57. Gerard Wajcman The Absence of the 20th Century Lacanian Ink 18 pp. 60-79 [2001] 58. Michel Poizat, The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera, Part II, chapter 2 ("Entre parole, cri et silence") [Cornell UP, 1992] 59. Jacqueline Rose Daddy The Haunting of Sylvia Plath pp. 205-238 [Virago, 1991] 60. Alenka Zupancic Lacan's Heroines: Antigone and Sygne de Coufontaine New Formations, No. 35, pp. 108-121
Contents: Introduction 1.Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination 1.1 Death and Sublimation: The Final Scene of City Lights 1.2 Imaginary, Symbolic, Real 2.Why is Woman a Symptom of a Man? 2.1 Why is Suicide the Only Successful Act? 2.2 The Night of the World 3.Why is Every Act a Repetition? 3.1 Beyond Distributive Justice 3.2.Identity and Authority 4.Why Does the Phallus Appear? 4.1 Grimaces of the Real 4.2 Phallophany of the Anal Father 5.Why are there Always Two Fathers? 5.1 At the Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father 5.2 Die Versagung Index
Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated
by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic
systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and
Lacan, as well as frequent references to popular culture, he
examines the real causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in
Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world.
Ultimately, he warns, doing nothing is often the most violent
course of action we can take.
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more,
there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able
to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and
why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our
needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But,
perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy,
what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we
wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there
any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we
forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from
The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of
pandemics, Zizek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment
we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the
political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we
begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of
'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we
find a way out?
As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic,
other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate
disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war.
The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging
the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong
famously proclaimed "There is great disorder under heaven; the
situation is excellent." The contemporary relevance of Mao's
observation depends on whether today's catastrophes can be a
catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible
and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in
heaven itself. Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals
that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Zizek's new book
treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and
Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates
universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and
Chile, France and Kurdistan, and beyond. Heaven In Disorder looks
with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty
promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by
the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Zizek asserts the
need for international solidarity, economic transformation,
and-above all-an urgent, "wartime" communism.
'The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given
ground relative to one's desire' Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis
dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical
'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality? Slavoj
Zizek's passionate defence of Lacan reasserts the ethical urgency
of psychoanalysis. Traditionally, psychoanalysis was expected to
allow the patient to overcome the obstacles which prevented access
to 'normal' sexual enjoyment. Today, however, we are bombarded from
all sides by different versions of the injunction 'Enjoy!' Lacan
reminds us that psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you
are allowed not to enjoy. Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is
a procedure of reading, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a
tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular
ideology, applying his ideas to Hegel and Hitchcock, Shakespeare
and Dostoevsky.
Slavoj Zizek's critical engagement with Christian theology goes
much further than his seminal The Fragile Absolute (2000), or his
The Puppet and the Dwarf (2003), or even his discussion with noted
theologian John Milbank in The Monstrosity of Christ (2009). His
reading of Christianity, utilising his signature elements of
Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy with modern
philosophical currents, can be seen as a genuinely original
contribution to the philosophy of religion. This book focuses on
these aspects of Zizek's thought with either philosophy and
cultural theory, or Christian theology, serving as starting points
of enquiry. Written by a panel of international contributors, each
chapter teases out various strands of Zizek's thought concerning
Christianity and religion and brings them into a wider conversation
about the nature of faith. These essays show that far from being an
outright rejection of Christian thought and intellectual heritage,
Zizek's work could be seen as a perverse affirmation thereof. Thus,
what he has to say should be of direct interest to Christian
theology itself. Touching on thinkers such as Badiou, Lacan,
Chesterton and Schelling, this collection is a dynamic reading and
re-reading of Zizek's relationship to Christianity. As such,
scholars of theology, the philosophy of religion and Zizek more
generally will all find this book to be of great interest.
With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical
work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a
giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links
Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the
French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian
concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in
such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he
attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that
such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital
capitalism'. With his brilliant energy and fearless argumentation,
Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the
one we thought we knew.
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to
date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of
dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Zizek
critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert
Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to
name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum
mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside
striking images of the Moebius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein
bottle, Zizek brings alive the Hegelian triad of
being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit
side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film,
politics, and culture. Here is Zizek at his interrogative best.
Contents: Introduction: An encounter, not a Dialogue; Deleuze; The Reality of the Virtual; Becoming versus History; "Becoming-Machine"; Un jour, peut-ętre, le sičcle sera empiriomoniste?; Quasi-Cause; Spinoza; Kant, Hegel: Hegel 1: Taking Deleuze from Behind; Hegel 2: From Epistemology to Ontology... and back; Hegel 3: The Minimal Distance; The Torsion of Meaning; A Comic Hegelian Interlude: Dumb and Dumber; The Becoming-Oedipal of Deleuze; Phallus; Fantasy; RIS; On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong's Slogan "Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"; Consequences; Science: Cognitivism with Freud; "Autopoiesis"; Memes, Memes Everywhere; Against Hyphen-Ethics; Cognitive Closure?; "Little jolts of enjoyment"; Art: The Talking Heads; Kino-Eye; Hitchcock as Anti-Plato; The Cut of the Gaze; When the Fantasy Falls Apart; "I, the truth, am speaking"; Beyond Morality; Politics: the Ongoing "Soft Revolution"; A Yuppie Reads Deleuze; Micro-Fascisms; Netocracy; Blow against the Empire; The Liberal Fake; How to Live with Catastrophes?; A Modest Proposal for an Act in the Middle East
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 usual 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.
Operas are about the meaning of love and life, and also very much about the meaning of death. Opera as a form, however, might even be dead itself. The last great operas are said to be those written around 1900. But, the psychoanalytic critic and philosopher Slavoj Zizek is quick to point out, 1900 is also the year in which Freud 'invents' psychoanalysis. Can this be a coincidence? Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera---the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. Mozart's understanding of psychoanalysis and Wagner's sense of humor are but two of the many surprises in Zizek and Dolar's operatic tour de force. Opera's Second Death is an extended aria on a subject that is far from dead.
Operas are about the meaning of love and life, and also very much about the meaning of death. Opera as a form, however, might even be dead itself. The last great operas are said to be those written around 1900. But, the psychoanalytic critic and philosopher Slavoj Zizek is quick to point out, 1900 is also the year in which Freud 'invents' psychoanalysis. Can this be a coincidence? Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera---the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. Mozart's understanding of psychoanalysis and Wagner's sense of humor are but two of the many surprises in Zizek and Dolar's operatic tour de force. Opera's Second Death is an extended aria on a subject that is far from dead.
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true. On Belief is essential reading for anyone interested in how we continue to hold beliefs in this postmodern age.
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What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true. On Belief is essential reading for anyone interested in how we continue to hold beliefs in this postmodern age.
Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that
changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No
ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have
had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happens when
a direct link between our mental processes and a digital machine
emerges. Zizek explores the phenomenon of a wired brain effect, and
what might happen when we can share our thoughts directly with
others. He hones in on the key question of how it shapes our
experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks what it means
to be human when a machine can read our minds. With characteristic
verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Zizek connects Hegel to the
world we live in now, shows why he is much more fun than anyone
gives him credit for, and why the 21st century might just be
Hegelian.
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Geloof (Hardcover)
Slavoj Zizek; Translated by Vertaling Guus Houtzager
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Hoe kunnen we nog geloven en regels hebben in dit postmoderne
tijdperk waarin naar verluidt niets is om in te geloven en geen
regels zijn. De beroemde filosoof en onstuitbaar cultuurcriticus
Slavoj Zizek daagt iedereen uit in dit overtuigende en
adembenemende nieuwe boek.In Geloof, dat van 'cyberspace-denken'
tot de paradox van het 'westerse boeddhisme' gaat, legt Zizek de
vooronderstellingen bloot achter de manier waarop we gewoonlijk
over geloof denken, met name in juda e en christendom. Door de
zogenaamde authenticiteit van het religieuze geloof tegen een
kritisch licht te houden en te putten uit psychoanalyse, film en
filosofie, laat hij op schokkende wijze zien dat de basis van onze
fundamenteelste overtuigingen minder rotsvast is dan wij denken.
Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana,"
is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on
film, psychoanalysis (and life). His inimitable blend of
philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous
humor are made to show how Hollywood movies can explain
psychoanalysis-and vice versa using films such as Marnie and The
Man Who Knew TooMuch.
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations
and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian
psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan
through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over
100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and
referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel
Foucault and Jesus Christ. Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide
to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last
standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.
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Geloof (Paperback)
Slavoj Zizek; Translated by Vertaling Guus Houtzager
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Hoe kunnen we nog geloven en regels hebben in dit postmoderne
tijdperk waarin naar verluidt niets is om in te geloven en geen
regels zijn. De beroemde filosoof en onstuitbaar cultuurcriticus
Slavoj Zizek daagt iedereen uit in dit overtuigende en
adembenemende nieuwe boek. In Geloof, dat van 'cyberspace-denken'
tot de paradox van het 'westerse boeddhisme' gaat, legt Zizek de
vooronderstellingen bloot achter de manier waarop we gewoonlijk
over geloof denken, met name in judaisme en christendom. Door de
zogenaamde authenticiteit van het religieuze geloof tegen een
kritisch licht te houden en te putten uit psychoanalyse, film en
filosofie, laat hij op schokkende wijze zien dat de basis van onze
fundamenteelste overtuigingen minder rotsvast is dan wij denken.
Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to
emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and
the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied
to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its
prescription of imposed austerity. To general observers, the
European Union's economic woes appear to be its greatest problem,
but the real peril is an ongoing ideological--political crisis that
threatens an era of instability and reactionary brutality.
The fall of communism in 1989 seemed to end the leftist program
of universal emancipation. However, nearly a quarter of a century
later, the European Union has failed to produce any coherent vision
that can mobilize people to action. Until recently, the only
ideology receptive to European workers has been the nationalist
call to "defend" against immigrant integration. Today, Europe is
focused on regulating the development of capitalism and promoting a
reactionary conception of its cultural heritage. Yet staying these
courses, Žižek and Horvat show, only strips Europe of its power and
stifles its political ingenuity. The best hope is for Europe to
revive and defend its legacy of universal egalitarianism, which
benefits all parties by preserving the promise of equal
representation.
The title is just the first of many startling asides,
observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the
Lacanian psychoanalyst 's couch.
Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium
of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of
cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along
the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus
Christ.
Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and
psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing
giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.
Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that
changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No
ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what
he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what
happens when a direct link between our mental processes and a
digital machine emerges. Zizek explores the phenomenon of a wired
brain effect, and what might happen when we can share our thoughts
directly with others. He hones in on the key question of how it
shapes our experience and status as 'free' individuals and asks
what it means to be human when a machine can read our minds. With
characteristic verve and enjoyment of the unexpected, Zizek
connects Hegel to the world we live in now, shows why he is much
more fun than anyone gives him credit for, and why the 21st century
might just be Hegelian.
With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical
work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a
giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links
Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the
French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian
concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in
such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he
attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that
such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital
capitalism'. With his brilliant energy and fearless argumentation,
Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the
one we thought we knew.
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