Zizek and Heidegger

ISBN-13: 9780826497772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 198 str.

Thomas Brockelman

Opis

Zižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Zižek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Zižek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in Zižek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's techno-phobia. Brockelman's critique of Zižek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in Zižek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change. In addition to clarifying what Zižek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it, Zižek and Heidegger explores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in Zižek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand.