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1. Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek | |
Hardcover: 432
Pages
(2010-05-25)
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Read it!
disappointed
An Important Work from a Great Contemporary Philosopher
the standard test |
2. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 158
Pages
(2009-10-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over. Customer Reviews (15)
Philosophy For Our Time
Call for a debate
enjoyable
A very interesting defense of Communism
An act of desperation or pure irony? |
3. Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2008-07-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Customer Reviews (12)
Brilliant
Not impressed
Endless repetition
Missed Opportunity
A+ For Originality |
4. In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 530
Pages
(2009-10-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Zizek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger's seduction by fascism and Foucault's flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the 'right steps in the wrong direction.' On the revolutionary terror of Robespierre, Mao and the bolsheviks, Zizek argues that while these struggles ended in historic failure and horror, there was a valuable core of idealism lost beneath the bloodshed. A redemptive vision has been obscured by the soft, decentralized politics of the liberal-democratic consensus. Faced with the coming ecological crisis, Zizekk argues the case for revolutionary terror and the dictatorship of the proletariat. A return to past ideals is needed despite the risks. In the words of Samuel Beckett: 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' Customer Reviews (9)
IN DEFENSE of QUOTATION MARKS
DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF
Centralized Government Political Philosophy
Read It As Polemic
Excellent contemporary philosophical musings. |
5. Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek | |
Hardcover: 80
Pages
(2009-12-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is strange and new, and yet speaks in the name of all - as Badiou shows with his theory of universality. Similarly, Zizek believes that the philosopher must intervene, contrary to all expectations, in the key issues of the time. He can offer no direction, but this only shows that the question has been posed incorrectly: it is valid to change the terms of the debate and settle on philosophy as abnormality and excess. At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike. Customer Reviews (2)
Categories and universals
Badiou and Zizek's Agreement |
6. The Essential Zizek: The Complete Set (The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Ticklish Subject, The Fragile Absolute, The Plague of Fantasies: 4 books) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 1248
Pages
(2009-01-05)
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An Entertaining Experience in Light Philosophy
Excellent |
7. Zizek: A (Very) Critical Introduction (Interventions) by Marcus Pound | |
Paperback: 168
Pages
(2008-11-15)
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From the back cover |
8. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 196
Pages
(2003-10-12)
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Josh
Long lost texts reveal that Christianity is a Jewish plot!
philosophy rock star
Remember 11. Thesis
What can one say about Zizek? |
9. The Subject of Politics: Slavoj Zizek's Political Philosophy by Henrik Jøker Bjerre, Carsten Bagge Laustsen | |
Paperback: 126
Pages
(2010-06-26)
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Entertaining Theory |
10. Lacrimae Rerum: Ensayos Sobre Cine Moderno y Ciberespacio (Referencias (Debate)) (Spanish Edition) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 313
Pages
(2006-08)
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11. Slavoj Zizek (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Tony Myers | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2003-12-03)
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Outstanding accompaniment to the works of Zizek |
12. Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 154
Pages
(2002-10-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description About the series: Appearing on the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, these series of books from Verso present analyses of the United States, the media, and the events surrounding September 11 by Europe's most stimulating and provocative philosophers. Probing beneath the level of TV commentary, political and cultural orthodoxies, and 'rent-a-quote' punditry, Baudrillard, Virilio, and Zizek offer three highly original and readable accounts that serve as fascinating introductions to the direction of their respective projects, and as insightful critiques of the unfolding events. This series seeks to comprehend the philosophical meaning of September 11 and will leave untouched none of the prevailing views currently propagated. Customer Reviews (5)
you need to read this book
A Renaissance of Political Philosophy
a great book
Psychoanalysis meets 9/11
Reality as illusion In fact, Zisek is a stimulating and important writer and the reader should take the effort to appreciate him.To the extent that this book has a thesis it is expressed on the cover.Instead of the attacks forcing the United States to rethink its attitude towards the rest of the world, it has allowed itself to view itself solely as a victim.By contrast "That is the true lesson of the attacks:the only way to ensure that it will not happen here again is to prevent it happening anywhere else."At the same time Zisek is vehement against those who showed a certain schaudenfreude at American suffering, or those tempted to euphemize Palestianian suicide bombers.On the Islamists themselves, Zisek makes an interesting point against those who wish for a "Protestant" reformation for Islam.There already has been one.Like Protestantism, the Wahabbi sect that rules Saudi Arabia rejects the accretions and growths of Islam over the previous centuries as so much quasi-pagan superstition.Like Protestantism it emphasizes holy scripture and even offers suggestions for a more practical bible interpretation.Clearly, this is not enough.Elsewhere Zisek points out that in a way political Islam is Islamic fascism, in the sense that it seeks a capitalism without capitalism, or a capitalism with its destabilizing effects. Elsewhere Zisek has stimulating things to say about "The Matrix" from which he extracts his title, and about the way that movie and others like "The Truman Show," reflect a nervous anxiety that "our" suburban life is something unreal.At the same time, one cannot unproblematically search for the real, a la Orwell, a certain harmony with fantasy is crucial to Lacanian good health.There are interesting comments on suicide as the expression not of certainty, but of doubt, not as sacrifice, but as evasion.His comments on "Shrek" will be of great comfort to all those who think that film over-rated:it is a movie which overturns all conventions yet at the same time only reaffirms them.Zisek cautions against the use of "proto-fascist": not all criticisms of decadence or invocations of discipline are fascist--consider the example of Schoenberg.He also notes that the private sphere is becoming a commodified space.The only way, he suggests, for true love to exist is not for the lovers to stare into each others eyes but at some sort of collectivity outside them.He is especially angry at Jonathan Alter and Alan Dershowitz for suggesting the torture of terrorists.As he quite properly points out, if torturing terrorists could save lives, then the torturing of prisoners of wars would saveeven more.Although at one point he argues that anti-Americanism is most common in countries that have lost their influence, like France and Germany, he argues that it is vitally necessary for a European response to provide an alternative to American diplomacy.On this point, I fully agree. ... Read more |
13. The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (Second Edition)(The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 157
Pages
(2009-01-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute – published here with a new preface by the author – is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Customer Reviews (7)
A Shared Lie is an Incomparably More Efficient Bond for a Group Than the Truth
red herring
Cristianismo-Leninismo
SOS
Theology for Marxists, Atheists and Agnostics Žižek in this work embraces the shared Marxist and Christian messianic visions of history as an alternative to both the post-modern, New Age-Gnostic moral sludge dominating PC culture and the excesses of capital.The true heart of the work-and its most convincing parts as well-occur mid-way through in Žižek `s treatment of Pauline agape vs. the Law/Sindialectic as it relates to modern human rights.More or less, this is a desperate attempt to revive Marxism as an alternative to Liberalism. Good Luck. Žižek writes in a frenetic, gregarious style that is endearing but not necessarily rigorous.His penchant for citing movies, novels and popular culture besides the likes of Schelling, Lacan, Hegel and Heidegger lightens the atmosphere, but the problem is that many things that he says, many conclusions he arrives at from overly generalized instances of cultural practice are just blatantly false.Also, it can be annoying when he rambles on for five pages about a movie you've never seen, thus, making any attempt to understand his point tedious. [Recommendation: definitely make sure you've watched Hitchcock's VERTIGO before reading this book]. For me, Žižek is one of the authors with whom I part ways with on the big questions but with whomI often side with on the smaller questions.His acuity in the realm of cultural interpretation and his applications of Lacanian psychoanalysis to politics are both haunting and memorable long after you've finished the books.Re-reading this book, I came across this passage in footnote #12 that sent shivers down my spine with it's accuracy. ... Read more |
14. The Plague of Fantasies (Second Edition)(The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2009-01-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions—whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references—explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter—to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives. Customer Reviews (5)
One of Lacan's Best Books--Oops,Sorry, I Meant 'Zizek'
Zizek: A Self-Portrait
Lacanian pyschoanalysis applied to politics
joussance?
Reading Theory Isn't Supposed to Be This Fun, Is It? |
15. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities), 1.) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2000-06)
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Explicating Lynch using Lacan or explicating Lacan using Lynch
Entertaining, illuminating, cogent
Huh??
Ridiculous, but hardly sublime
Intelligent but cockeyed A self-proclaimed Lacanian, Zizek makes a case for an anti-Fruedian, anti-Jungianpsychoanalytic interpretation of what is perhaps David Lynch's most obscure feature film since Eraserhead.As published on Amazon.com and elsewhere, I prefer a Jungian interpretation of Lost Highway, and for good reason:it fits extremely well.To deny this is to deny the evidence of one's own eyes. All the same, Zizek's intellect is beyond dispute, and his reading of Lost Highway should be of great interest to film theorists and serious David Lynch fans alike. ... Read more |
16. The Sublime Object of Ideology (Second Edition)(The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2009-01-05)
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The emperor has no clothes.
The Real Deal
The Sublime Object Of Ideology
Zizek's First Philosophical Book in English
All of the philosophers hated it. |
17. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (New and Updated Edition) | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2010-08-03)
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18. For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2008-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description Today,with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing thiseruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism andracism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that haveemerged are far from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox,says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn topsychoanalysis. For They Know Not What They Doseeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideologicaldiscourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideologicaldeadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes thisan engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands withRossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theorywith Hollywood melodrama. Customer Reviews (1)
Zizek's "Return to Hegel" |
19. How to Read Lacan (How to Read) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(2007-01-17)
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How To Read Zizek Reading Himself Reading Lacan
for armchair enthusiasts, not clinicians
accessible read
Big Other is watching you.
The Unconscious Un-idea |
20. The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Slavoj Zizek, Eric L. Santner, Kenneth Reinhard | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2006-02-14)
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Jesus replied... |
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