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,...

Als das eigensinnige Kind aus dem gleichnamigen Mrchen der Brder Grimm nach seinem Tod ins Grab versenkt war, und Erde ber es hingedeckt, so kam auf einmal sein rmchen wieder hervor, und reichte in die Hhe, und wenn sie es hineinlegten und frische Erde darber taten, so half das nicht, es kam immer wieder heraus.Diese Figur der unbeugsamen Faust als ein krperloses Organ im Deleuzeschen Sinne und zugleich als Freudsches Partialobjekt bildet den Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie, in der zwei Denker miteinander konfrontiert werden, die gewhnlich als unvereinbar gelten: Deleuze und Lacan. Anhand des...

Parallaxe bezeichnet gemeinhin die scheinbare Änderung der Position eines Objekts, wenn der Beobachter seine eigene Position verschiebt. Was ist aber, wenn die beobachtete Veränderung nicht einfach nur subjektiv ist? Was ist, wenn sie gerade vom Gegenstand selbst und seinen ihm innewohnenden Antagonismen ausgeht? §Die Parallaxe erscheint in i eks pointenreicher Analyse als Denk- und Erklärungsfigur in höchst unterschiedlichen theoretischen Ansätzen: Sie findet sich im Wellen-Teilchen-Dualismus der Quantenphysik ebenso wie in der Psychoanalyse, der Philosophie und der Politischen...

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. ?i?ek dazzles readers with his analyses of Hollywood films, Venezuelan police reports, Swedish crime fiction and much else. Wherever the conversation turns, his energetic mind illuminates unexpected horizons.

While analyzing our present...

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, and Stalinism, Leviticus 19:18 seems even less conceivable--but all the more urgent now--than Freud imagined.
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Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. ?i?ek dazzles readers with his analyses of Hollywood films, Venezuelan police reports, Swedish crime fiction and much else. Wherever the conversation turns, his energetic mind illuminates unexpected horizons.

While analyzing our present...

The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first developed in the 1930s asserts a commitment to humanity's potential that continued through his later work. In The Privatization of Hope, leading thinkers in utopian studies explore the insights that Bloch's ideas provide in understanding the present. Mired in the excesses and disaffections of contemporary capitalist society, hope in the Blochian sense has become atomized,...

The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885 1977), especially in his magnum opus, "The Principle of Hope" (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first developed in the 1930s asserts a commitment to humanity's potential that continued through his later work. In "The Privatization of Hope," leading thinkers in utopian studies explore the insights that Bloch's ideas provide in understanding the present. Mired in the excesses and disaffections of contemporary capitalist society, hope in the Blochian sense has become atomized, desocialized, and...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers
Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay -An American Utopia- radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are--among other things--universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson's text is ideally placed to...