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21. The Idea of Communism | |
Paperback: 224
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(2010-12-13)
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22. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 188
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(1992-09-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements of Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. Customer Reviews (6)
'the Real' title: An Introduction to Zizek
Lacanian heresy inside!Beware of being tainted!
Perfect - if that's what you want. Lacan's seminar is an unreadable text - if that's your first/second/third etc. time. Lacan, you see, does not make conclusions. To illustrate that: As soon as you get the background - Lacan's non-sense makes perfect sense. Zizek give this background in a highly entertaining manner (his writing is a jewel - keeps you thinking "If only I could write like that!"). I am currently doing a PhD in literature, and I have to go through plenty of academic rubbish - dry and actually, useless critical books, that make use of Lacan, Foucault and others to get published and never be read. Zizec is a breath of fresh air. Please believe me - do not give up on Lacan, do not call him bad names, (like "idiotic nonsense, nobody ever understood him, they were all pretending to understand him because they were afraid to look stupid in the 60s") - before you read Zizec.
This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns
Titling awry |
23. The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank | |
Hardcover: 416
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(2009-04-24)
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Paradox and the Growth of Knowledge
Hegel, Jesus, Paradox and Dialectic
The Monstrosity of Christ: Discourse or Deception?
Reason and Religion: Hegel and Theology
Loving Everything About Coca-Cola Except its Taste |
24. Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology by John Milbank, Creston Davis, Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 256
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(2010-11-01)
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25. The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (Radical Thinkers) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 228
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(2006-01-17)
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Impressive: intellectual fireworks
Intense yet Palatable |
26. Conversations with Zizek (Conversations) by Slavoj Zizek, Glyn Daly | |
Paperback: 171
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(2004-01-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace, film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Žižek elaborates on a range of topics which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much more. This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Žižeks humour and character, and is an ideal introduction to his work. At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural studies and politics. Customer Reviews (3)
The Easy Way
Most coherent text on Lacan and/or Zizek ever
a great introduction |
27. Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 304
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(1993-01-01)
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28. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Second Edition)(The Essential Zizek) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 499
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(2009-01-05)
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Fighting For The Universal
I Think Therefore I Tickle
Much better written than the last two books
Check this Quote out on the Symbolic Institution:
This book might be a really big deal... |
29. Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou | |
Paperback: 256
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(2010-10-17)
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30. The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek | |
Kindle Edition: 528
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(2006-02-17)
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Unsystematic systematizer
An apology for Philosophy (against postmodernist skepticism)
Between Object and Subject is nothing but Parallax...
Lacan, Lacan, Lacan
Lacanian Overload |
31. On Belief (Thinking in Action) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 176
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(2001-06-26)
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oh zizek...
just don't expect rigour
bizarre: one of the best as well as the worst
a small treasure
a small treasure |
32. The Fright of Real Tears | |
Hardcover: 240
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(2001-11-15)
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Zizek requires more than surface understandings
Fright of Mambo Jumbo |
33. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock | |
Paperback: 288
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(1992-10-01)
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Chicken Soup for the Brain Where on earth am I going with this? I feel about the hot new scholarly phenomenon that is Slavoj Zizek, the editor of this volume, much the way I did about the Marquise de Merteuil. It's nice to see someone out there championing such academic fashion sins as Christian ethics (in The Fragile Absolute), the Cartesian subject (in The Ticklish Subject), and erudition, and make them trendy by doing it within a Lacanian framework. But unless you really needed to be liberated from the poststructuralist program you probably never lost entire faith in any of these things and concluded all by yourself the same things Zizek seem to have: that the version of Western metaphysics savaged by poststructuralism was a straw man anyway, whereas a more truthful version would acknowledge the fragility or ticklishness of these ideals and intuitions. If you do not need Zizek to liberate you then there is not much to recommend in this book of Lacanian Hitchcock criticism. Zizek is mostly incomprehensible; unlike the equally erudite Camille Paglia, he doesn't possess the writerly virtue of being able to explain other people's big ideas. He just namechecks and hurries on. His odd prose style contains something compelling about it, but also something unsettling. His attention-grabbing imperatives like "Enjoy your symptom!" (from the title of another of his books) or (from his contribution to this book) "Eat your being-there!" are an odd mixture of much good and bad in contemporary culture: they have the sensationalism of Paglia's scholarship-as-sound-bites ("If women ran the world we would all still be living in grass huts," or however it goes), the shiny emptiness and absurdity of bad Japanese translations on imported gift products (my favourites to date are "Hearts live in the coming day" and "Let us make the most and best of each day's and noble enjoyment" (sic)), a faint ring of sing-song Communist or flaky self-help mantras in a Bizarro universe, and a fainter ring of Nietzsche's piquant, pissy, repellent maxims. Not that what I've read of Zizek reminds me much of Nietzsche. His personality reminds me more of someone like Alfred Jarry or Marcel Duchamp, a mixture of intellectualism and mischief. And that, along with his gimmick uh, I mean project of reforming the house of Lacan from within, is surely what accounts for Zizek's sudden trendiness. Yet to me this seems like a disguised continuation of the deep problems of academe rather than a compromise solution to them: Zizek is the very essence of of-the-momentness. The book gets three stars from me not for its contents but for its usefulness (maybe) in making certain choices available to students without the cost of sacrificing their cool radicalism. Was it Nietzsche, or Stanley Cavell, or someone else who predicted that morality would only be revived if someone made it cool again? Well, the time has come, and in that Zizek has gone beyond Paglia, who was fighting Judeo-Christianity as much as she was fighting the trendy pack of poststructuralist ideas. The essays in this book not written by Zizek will, I presume, appeal to Lacanians and particularly to Lacanian Hichcockians (I know a couple); they will not appeal to non-Lacanians, Hitchcockian or not. As for Zizek's introduction and essay, what I understood of them I sometimes agreed with, sometimes not. He has good observations to make about the gaze in Hitchcock (if Lacanian theory is ever going to apply to any filmmaker, it's Hitchcock), even if he sometimes comes by them in a tortuously roundabout fashion, but it is certainly not worth it for a non-Lacanian Hitchcock fan to buy the book. Take it out of the library, like I did. But only if you're bored and have nothing else to do but check out the latest trends. Better yet, watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm still waiting for criticism of Hitchcock that will be worthy of him. In the meantime Zizek's scattered, mercurial insights will have to do as a poor approximation, just like the Marquise de Merteuil had to do until I discovered Elizabeth Bennet. ... Read more |
34. The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Slavoj Zizek, F.W.J. von Schelling | |
Hardcover: 192
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(1997-08-01)
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useful but flawed
A compelling and confusing abyss |
35. Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 280
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(2007-10-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ. Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century. Customer Reviews (4)
the point?
elevator music piped upwind Each chapter sets out to answer a question posed by the chapter heading (e.g., Why is Reality Always Multiple?). First Zizek approaches a solution or description of the problem as it appears in Hollywood films. These Zizek treats as texts or case studies. Whatever your opinion of the merits of psychoanalytic description for general use, the discussion of the films makes marvellously amusing reading. As demanding for this reader as the steep range of theoretical vocabulary employed is the ample library of films from which Zizek draws his examples. Many of which films I'd never seen. The second section of each chapter recasts the first approach through film in the language, theory and realm of analysis, theory and philosophy. I cannot weigh in an estimation of the value of this book. Surely, it is not as profoundly useful or clear as Zizek's political and philosophical thriller, Ticklish Subject. Yet, the application of Zizek's critical arsenal to Hollywood without the baggage of Politics and History, makes room for exposition through, sad to say, a universal and more immediate medium.
very clear stuff
Lacanian theory and the movies |
36. La Revolucion Blanda (Spanish Edition) by Slavoj Zizek | |
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(2004-12)
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37. The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters (Radical Thinkers) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 248
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(2007-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling’s Weltalterdrafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at theformulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from thepre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. F.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in theshadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealistmotifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique workannounces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as theproperly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeatwhich can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. The Indivisible Remainder beginswith a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling'sspeculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom andhis drafts on the “Ages of the World.” After reconstituting their lineof argumentation, Slavoj Zizek confronts Schelling with Hegel, andconcludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some “related matters”:the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexualexperience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; theepistemological deadlocks of quantum physics. Althoughthe book is packed with examples from politics and popular culture —the unmistakable token of Zizek’s style — from Speed and Groundhog Day to Forrest Gump,it signals a major shift towards a systematic concern with the basicquestions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of ourlate-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modernsubjectivity. |
38. The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis) by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 336
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(1989-12)
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Zizek Before Zizek
All of the philosophers hated this book.
THE best introduction to hegel, marx, freud, and lacan
A True First Step
groundbreaking |
39. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion by Slavoj Zizek | |
Paperback: 280
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(2002-10-27)
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interesting
Incomprehensible
An intensely searching evaluation and analysis |
40. Christ in Postmodern Philosophy: Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard, and Slavoj Zizek by Frederiek Depoortere | |
Paperback: 176
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(2008-10-01)
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