Film theory is in crisis. The dominant psychoanalytical paradigm is contested by cognitive models and post-theory. In the background is a wider crisis in cultural studies, particularly as regards the public role of the politically engaged intellectual. In this major new study Slavoj Zizek challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of cinema and conventional film theory. Arguing that the reading of Lacan operative in the '70s and '80s was particularly reductive, Zizek asserts that there is "another Lacan," in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies, and critical thought as...
Film theory is in crisis. The dominant psychoanalytical paradigm is contested by cognitive models and post-theory. In the background is a wider crisis...
Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and the arts, but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking, so crucial to its proper understanding? In "Lacan: The Silent Partners" Slavoj Žižek, the maverick theorist and pre-eminent Lacan scholar, has marshalled some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of...
Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence ...
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century? Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Everything is here, from Lenin-the-ingenious-revolutionary-strategist to Lenin-of-the-enacted-utopia. To use Kierkegaard s phrase, what we can glimpse in these writings is...
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn t he stand for the big catastrophe ...
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.
Violence, Zizek...
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our...
In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today.
Zizek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics.
Illustrates the originality of Zizek's thinking on...
In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking on ...
The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are "gaze "and "voice" part of the relationship we call love . . . or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and "gaze" and "voice" as love's medium. The contributors proceed from the Lacanian premise that "there is no sexual relationship," that the sexes are in no way complementary and that love figured in the gaze and the voice embodies the promise and impossibility of any relation between them....
The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are "gaze "and "voice" part of the relationship we call love . . . or ...
Hinter dem bekannten Bild Hitchcocks als eines groen kommerziellen Entertainers, hinter dem Meister des Suspense, gibt es einen anderen Hitchcock, der auf eine vllig neuartige Weise Ideologiekritik betreibt. Die Pointe der Analysen besteht darin, diesen anderen Hitchcock sichtbar zu machen und ihn so fr ein progressives Denken und eine progressive Praxis zu retten.
Hinter dem bekannten Bild Hitchcocks als eines groen kommerziellen Entertainers, hinter dem Meister des Suspense, gibt es einen anderen Hitchcock, der...
Die Entwrfe zu einer philosophischen Ethik kranken oft daran, da ihre Umsetzung in die Anforderungen der Realpolitik zu einem Dilemma fhrt: Entweder wird das Ethische zum Verschwinden gebracht, oder das Politische gert unethisch. Es scheint, als ob sich beide Bestrebungen nicht vereinbaren lassen. In seinem neuen Buch unterzieht Slavoj Zizek die derzeit prominenten Ethiken einer fundamentalen Kritik: Er setzt sich mit den Entwrfen u. a. von Judith Butler, Frederic Jameson, Emmanuel Levinas, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri und Jacques Ranciere auseinander und zeigt,...
Die Entwrfe zu einer philosophischen Ethik kranken oft daran, da ihre Umsetzung in die Anforderungen der Realpolitik zu einem Dilemma fhrt: Entweder w...
