The Žižek reader
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The Žižek reader
（Blackwell readers）
Blackwell, 1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780631212003
Description
The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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
.
Table of Contents
Preface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek. Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
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.
Slavoj Zizek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.
Index.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780631212010
Description
The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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
.
Table of Contents
Preface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part I: Culture 9
1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment: How popular culture can serve as an Introduction to Lacan 11
2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity 37
3. The Spectre of Ideology 53
4. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach 87
5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?102
Part II: Woman 125
6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist' 127
7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing 148
8. There is No Sexual Relationship 174
9. Death and the Maiden 206
Part III: Philosophy 223
10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology 225
11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces 251
12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You 268
13. Kant with (or against) Sade 283
14. Of Cells and Selves 302
Slavoj i ek: Bibliography of Worlds in English 321
Index 323
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