The Zizek Reader
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"The Zizek Reader" - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of...
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"The Zizek Reader" - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. ^Collects work by one of the most arresting and scandalous thinkers of our time. ^Aids the reader to understand the often complex thinking of both Lacan and Zizek^^.
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The Zizek Reader provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the influential writings of Zizek. Divided into three parts, culture, women, and philosophy, The Reader not only gives careful explanations of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework The essays on women offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. The book includes a foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace.
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The Zizek Reader - which includes a Preface by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory', 'the Giant of Ljubljana... the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus'. His work is an extraordinary mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into three parts - Culture, Woman and Philosophy - the Reader not only provides careful explications of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework. The essays on woman offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. In fact, at this collection dazzlingly demonstrates, Zizek provides us with one of the most limpid and persuasive readings so far produced of Lacan's difficult thought.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 165309
- Product Code 0631212019
- EANÂ 9780631212010
- Pages 346
- Department Academic
- Category Philosophy
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Blackwell Publishing
- Publication Date Jan 1999
- Sales Rank 35291
- Dimensions 230 x 152 x 17mm
- Weight 0.520kg
Elizabeth Wright (Ed)
Lou Anne Wright holds an M.F.A. in Voice, Speech and Dialects Coaching & Training from the National Theatre Conservatory. She is a Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. As a voice and dialect coach, she has worked with many professional and regional repertory companies, including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She is co-author of the book PLAYWRITING: FROM FORMULA TO FORM, published by Thomson Wadsworth. Her screenwriting credits include the film adaptation of Eudora Welty's THE HITCH-HIKERS, which featured Patty Duke and Richard Hatch (and for which she was nominated for the
Edmund Wright (Ed)
Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge
- Part I: Culture: 1. The Undergrowth Of Enjoyment. 2. The Obscene Object Of
- Postmodernity . 3. The Spectre Of Ideology. 4. Fantasy As A Political
- Category. 5. Is It Possible To Traverse The Fantasy In Cyberspace? Part
- Ii: Woman: 6. Otto Weininger, Or 'woman Doesn't Exist'. 7. Courtly Love,
- Or Woman As Thing. 8. There Is No Sexual Relationship. 9. Death And The
- Maiden. Part Iii: Philosophy: 10. Hegel's "logic Of Essence" As A Theory
- Of Ideology. 11. Schelling-in-itself: The Orgasm Of Forces. 12. A Hair Of
- The Dog That Bit You. 13. Kant With (or Against) Sade. 14. Of Cells And
- Selves. 15. Bibliography. Index.