Interrogating the Real

ISBN-13: 9781472514936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 408 str.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

Opis

Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of i ek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style."

Recenzje

"The Giant of Ljubljana strikes again. In Interrogating the Real, the first volume of his collected writings. Slavoj Zizek proves that as a scholar he is as absurdly prolific as he is incorrigibly entertaining. Lauded by Terry Eagleton on the back cover of the book as "the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades," Zizek is known for his fast and loose style and his penchant for fiddling with philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies all in one fell swoop. Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that Zizek has made quite a name for himself and has assumed the status of an academic rock star.Appropriately, then, Interrogating the Real stands as a sort of greatest hits album. The book is an assemblage of fifteen pieces, dating mainly from the 1980's and 1990's. Of varying length and form, the pieces range from transcriptions of interviews and lectures to reprinted journal articles or book chapters. Although most of the essays have already appeared elsewhere, some of them had not yet been translated into English or were only available in journals that are not readily accessible to most readers. It is thus useful tot have the pieces collected into one easy to access volume."Cristina Laurita, February 2007 , Janus Head, Summer/Fall Open issue 2006, 9.1.

Spis treści

Preface, Slavoj Zizek 'The Thing Itself' Appears: Introducing the Work of SlavojZizek, Rex Butler andScott Stephens Part One: Lacanian Orientations 1. The Societyfor Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia 2. Why Lacan is Hegelian 3. The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan 4. Connections of theFreudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture 5. Lacan between CulturalStudies and Cognitivism Part Two: Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis 6. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis 7. A Hair of theDog That Bit You 8. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows 9. The Eclipse of Meaning:On Lacan and Deconstruction 10. The Parallax View Part Three: The Fantasy ofIdeology 11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards aLacanian Theory of Ideology 12. Beyond Discourse Analysis 13. Re-visioning'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and its Obscene Double 14. Why is WagnerWorth Saving? 15. The Real of Sexual Difference Glossary.

O autorze

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999). Scott Stephens is Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Politics, Brisbane, Australia.