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61. Terrorism and communism: a reply
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62. On Zizek's Dialectics: Surplus,
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63. Zizek's Politics
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64. The Indivisible Remainder: An
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65. Universal Exception
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66. Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations
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67. Organs without Bodies: Deleuze
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68. Joyce through Lacan and Zizek:
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69. Cogito and the Unconscious(Series:
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70. The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six
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71. Was Sie immer schon über Lacan
 
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72. Organos sin cuerpo (Spanish Edition)
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73. Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)
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74. Zizek and Heidegger: The Question
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75. Time Driven: Metapsychology and
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76. Die Tücke des Subjekts.
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77. Die Revolution steht bevor. Dreizehn
78. Lacan
79. LA PARALLAXE
80. Willkommen in der Wüste des Realen

61. Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky, foreword by Slavoj Zizek, preface by H.N. Brailsford.
by Leon Trotsky
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62. On Zizek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy)
by Fabio Vighi
Hardcover: 208 Pages (2010-08-15)
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This title presents an examination of Zizek's groundbreaking psychoanalytic methodology and its implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. "On Zizek's Dialectics" explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Zizek by investigating its epistemological implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. The book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value. If the originality of Zizek's wager lies in the claim that enjoyment secretly sustains our ideological space, can we think of surplus-jouissance in a way that not only unmasks the ruse of capitalism but also adumbrates the construction of an alternative social space? The answer to this question is developed in the second part of the book.Arguing that the transformative potential of Zizek's epistemology needs to be fully unravelled if it is to avoid the risk of congealing into mere academic exercise, Fabio Vighi attempts to politicise Zizek's groundbreaking critical method by calling upon the necessity to translate its emphasis on the 'indigestible' surplus of knowledge into the drive to think the new. Under the current conditions, this creative moment can no longer be delayed. "Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy" presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of modern European thought. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the discipline. ... Read more


63. Zizek's Politics
by Jodi Dean
Paperback: 160 Pages (2006-08-14)
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Slavoj Zizek is perhaps the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today. Many readers both inside and outside of the academy have been intrigued by both the man and his writing yet, given the density of his prose and the radical views he often espouses, they have struggled to get a handle on his basic positions. He draws upon and makes continual reference to the challenging concepts of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lacan, and Badiou. His prose is dense and frenetic and his dialectical twists and turns seem to make it impossible to attribute to him any specific position: he celebrates St. Paul and orthodox Christians even as he engages in a spirited defense of Lenin.Zizek's Politics will synthesize Zizek's myriad political writings into a systematic theory and put his theory into dialogue with key concepts and positions in contemporary political thought. It will provide readers with a much needed critical introduction to the political thought of one of the world's most widely known and eccentric thinkers. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Great place to get the scoop on Zizek
Not enough secondary sources of merit exist on Zizek.I've been following his work and all the buzz surrounding him for over a decade now and this is the first solid, short & sweet but hardly dumbed-down, intro that specifically focuses on Zizek's political side (which is of course essential to everything he does).As a philosopher who has been slowly accruing ideas towards a position Zizek I found this text to be very nice.Indeed, I can say that in places, because I am long familiar with his works, I found myself moving quickly through what I didn't need help on.However, this only points to the function of the book as anintroduction, for which it is excellent.I also found it illuminating in various places and undoubtedly helpful in organizing Zizek's manifold overlapping themes.

I can imagine that for one who is only familiar with Zizek through things like his more popular short books, his articles in "In These Times," and the films, or even only by word of mouth or perhaps having attended a public lecture, this book would be a perfect inroad to the central themes and concepts that underpin his often confusing public face.Philosophers and anyone else who knows only gossip and who would easily be persuaded to condemn Zizek to drinking the hemlock, that he comes from some unique dimension of the lunatic fringe beyond the most Radical Left 'dead-enders,' such people would do well to read this book and get their stories straight.

The scholarship is good, the material covered sufficiently general and detailed where it ought to be.It thus is fitting for the intellectual or scholar new to this stuff.But it also fairly accessible - as much as this stuff can get.So it is good for the general public, the student, and curious folk of all stripes.It is explanatory and seems to lack any agenda but to provide a fair treatment of the material without polemicism either against him or on his behalf - refreshing considering the tenor of the debate surrounding him.In short, it succeeds in the aim of the basic claim contained in the book's name (ouch... sorry...).

The price is right.The book has a nice physical feel to it and is entirely portable and durable.That is, it's perfect for the backpack of the anarchist who between protests wonders if his praxis is really not feeding into the state machine's hands.For instance, during the Pittsburgh G-20 summit PBS interviewed a couple of anarchists.Through the magic of non-editing, they mercilessly showed a guy - poor schlub - suffering complete brain flatulence while explaining why he was doing what he was doing.Had this guy been studying this book, he might not have had such a loss for words that only confirms to the bourgeois public that anti-capitalism has nothing to say but "smash!" and thus is reducible to the tragic rage of impotent losers in the saga of historical progress who are unable to "face the facts," namely that liberal-democratic-capitalism, rough & tumble though it may be, is the only game in town.

So yeah, Companeros, it is a good buy :)

5-0 out of 5 stars A very good book, much needed
Jodi Dean has written a very good account of Zizek's political philosophy. While Zizek himself is not famous for structuring the multiplicity of his thought, at least Dean manages to conceptualize some of his fundamental key-concepts: Enjoyment, Law, Superego,etc. It is not an "easy read" but worth the effort. ... Read more


64. The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
by Slavoj Zizek
Paperback: 248 Pages (1996-12)
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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 Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world', of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. F.W.J. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. The Indivisible Remainder begins with a detailed examination of the two works in which Schelling's speculative audacity reached its peak: his essay on human freedom and his drafts on the "Ages of the World."After reconstituting their line of argumentation, Slavoj Zizek confronts Schelling with Hegel, and concludes by throwing a Schellingian light on some "related matters": the consequences of the computerization of daily life for sexual experience; cynicism as today's predominant form of ideology; the epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics. Although the 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 basic questions of philosophy and the roots of the crisis of our late-capitalist universe, centred around the enigma of modern subjectivity. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars The One That No One Reads
I highly recommend reading this very interesting book, particularly if you are interested in German Idealism.

But even if you don't, make sure to remember that this book exists.That way, if Zizek ever comes up at a dinner party, you can say, "Well, I liked his book on Schelling."It works every time -- you look like you're exceptionally erudite, and no one will call you on it. ... Read more


65. Universal Exception
by Slavoj Zizek
Hardcover: 368 Pages (2006-06-20)
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The second volume of the key writings of leading contemporary cultural commentator, Slavoj Zizek. Collecting together a broad selection of Zizek's major writings on politics, The Universal Exception showcases his formidable range of interests and his style. The book includes his writings on such right-wing icons as Ayn Rand and Leni Riefenstahl; his take on the logic of capitalism and the condition of contemporary radical politics; and his views on major current global issues and events, including the Iraq war. Together with Interrogating the Real, the first volume of Zizek's selected writings, this collection offers a superb introduction to the work of this prolific, controversial and vastly entertaining cultural commentator. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Insightful, excellent
A wonderfully written and challenging account. Certainly I didn't accept all the argument--Zizek gives short shift to post-structuralism and at points his gendered readings are profoundly mistaken--but overall he delivers an astonishing amount of complex ideas in a very engaging manner. The main themes here on the challenges and necessity for the left are well rendered, and it's meshed in with specific focuses that are insightful, amusing and engaging. This volume is a collection of articles across several decades so there is some redundancy (the same stories get cited a couple different places) but there's also a lot of distinct notions. Well worth a look for anyone curious for a study of capitalism, communism, post-communism, modern culture and the Iraq War.

In particular, Zizek's analysis of right-wing populism as a component of global capitalism seem rather prophetic now. ... Read more


66. Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory
by Jerry Aline Flieger
Hardcover: 1392 Pages (2002-12-23)
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The texts selected here present the entire scope of the Lacan debate, from the late 1970s through the present. Focusing on the four principal domains of Lacan's influence--psychoanalytic theory and practice, philosophy, social sciences, and cultural studies, this set includes a new introduction by the editor and a thorough index. ... Read more


67. Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
by Slavoj Zizek
Hardcover: 232 Pages (2003-10-27)
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The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of politics, philosophy, film, and psychoanalysis. This is a polemical and surprising work. Deleuze, famous for his Anti-Oedipus (written with Felix Guattari), emerges here as someone much closer to the Oedipus he would disavow. Similarly, Zizek argues for Deleuze's proximity to Hegel, from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the "organs without bodies" in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the "radical chic" Deleuzians (he names, among them,Hardt and Negri's Empire), arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's "digital capitalism." Admired for its brilliant energy and fearless argumentation, Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the one we thought we knew. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Another Deleuze Is Possible
"In the past decade, notes Zizek in his introduction to Organs Without Bodies, Deleuze emerged as the central reference of contemporary philosophy: notions like 'resisting multitude,' 'nomadic subjectivity,' the 'anti-Oedipal' critique of psychoanalysis, and so on are the common currency of today's academia--not to mention the fact that Deleuze more and more serves as the theoretical foundation of today's anti-globalist Left and its resistance to capitalism." The paradoxical result of such Deleuzianism is that "while masquerading as radical chic, [it] effectively transforms Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital capitalism'."

For Zizek, "there is another Deleuze, much closer to psychoanalysis and Hegel, a Deleuze whose consequences are much more shattering." The proper Deleuze is that of the great early monographs, the key ones being Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense, as well as his later two-volume study on cinema. This series of works is to be distinguished from the books Deleuze and Guattari cowrote, A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus and What Is Philosophy?, which dominate Deleuze's reception in English-speaking academe and present a sanitized, politically correct version of his philosophy. For Zizek, this political Deleuze is a fake, not least because of his rejection of Freud and Lacan: "What Deleuze presents as 'Oedipus' is a rather ridiculous simplification, if not an outright falsification, of Lacan's position." Deleuze and Guattari's criticism of fascism also "indulge in a true interpretive delirium of hasty generalizations". In denouncing "the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior", to quote Foucault's famous preface to Anti-Oedipus, they "distract us from the positivity of fascism's actual ideological functioning, which is one of superego obscene enjoyment".

For Zizek, saving Deleuze from himself involves distancing Deleuze from the pernicious influence of Felix Guattari, and emphasizing what, in himself, is more than himself: "What we are reproaching Deleuze is that he is not Deleuzian enough." Paradoxically, while the "guattarized" Deleuze immediately lends himself to political interpretations, the "true" Deleuze is indifferent to politics.Whereas the ontology of productive Becoming that characterize the first Deleuze "clearly leads to the Leftist topic of the self-organization of the multitude of molecular groups that resist and undermine the molar, totalizing system of power," the other ontology, that of the sterility of the Sense-Event, appears "apolitical"."However, asks Zizek, what if this other ontology also involves a political logic and practice of its own, of which Deleuze himself was unaware? What if there is another Deleuzian politics to be discovered here?" And "What if the domain of politics is inherently `sterile', the domain of pseudo causes, a theater of shadows, but nonetheless crucial in transforming reality?"

There are basically two ways to uncover this Deleuzian Deleuze and to bring to the fore the radical potential of his (non-)politics. The first is to repeat Deleuze, following the paradox that "something truly new can only emerge through repetition". What is to be repeated is not the letter of Deleuze, remaining within the horizon of his conceptual field, but his 'spirit', the creative impulse that he himself betrayed by not being "Deleuzian enough". For Zizek, "It is not only that one can remain really faithful to an author by way of betraying him (the actual letter of his thought); at a more radical level, the inverse statement holds even more, namely, one can only truly betray an author by way of repeating him, by way of remaining faithful to the core of his thought".

The second way to remain faithful to Deleuze through betraying him is to read Deleuze through Hegel and Lacan. No matter that Deleuze explicitly rejected Hegel and found many things to criticize in Freud's legacy as revived by Lacan. For Zizek, Deleuze's injunction to "forget Hegel" conceals a disavowed affinity. Deleuze perceives Hegel as the philosopher who `filled in' the gaps of the Kantian system and passed from Kant's openness and indeterminacy to the notion's complete actualization. "What, however, if Hegel does not add any positive content to Kant, does not fill in the gaps--what if he just accomplishes a shift of perspective in and through which the problem already appears as its own solution?" This is, according to Zizek, the true meaning of the Hegelian reconciliation: "It is not that the tension is magically resolved and the opposites are reconciled. The only shift that effectively occurs is subjective, the shift of our perspective (i.e., all of a sudden, we become aware that what previously appeared as conflict already is reconciliation)."

I have only a faint acquaintance with Deleuze, and politically I find myself at great odds with Zizek's forays into social critique. There are statements in the book which are meant to shock or provoke the reader and which I found unnecessarily distasteful and outrageous. But reading Organs Without Body was an instructive experience on how to interpret an author through the lenses of another. I hope to be able to come to Deleuze with a fresh angle.

3-0 out of 5 stars Zizek is right about Organs rather than Bodies.
A problematic book from an invigorating yet also uneven thinker.Zizek of course must have eventually criticized Deleuze and Guattari, since they profoundly reject Lacanians and also idealist ontology - viz., Zizek.Conforming to a dubious trend, Zizek ignores Guattari completely, despite G's enormous contribution (see Gary Genosko's very scholarly book on Guattari and also the new _Anti-Oedipus Papers_)
Zizek criticizes Deleuze, appreciates how close he is to Hegel in spite of everything, and attempts to turn him back into a crypto-Lacanian/Hegelian idealist.This is a perverse reading and Zizek was the first to say so. He calls it sodomy of sorts.
But for myself, the one Zizekian observation that I find usefully accurate is in the book's title (and briefly argued within).That is, the famous "BwO" or "body without organs" motif that recurs so often throughout both volumes of _Capitalism and Schizophrenia_, is very weirdly a misnomer, or moreso, it is precisely backwards.Is it really only Zizek who has seen that they should have been calling it "Organs without Bodies" the whole time, since this is actually what their theory entails?Check it out again and see if Zizek isn't right about that.

Meanwhile, a chapter or so in which Z takes up the Anglo-american philosophy of consciousness, cognitive science, and so forth is an interesting and needed intersection between these usually mutually separated discourses of continental Theory and empirical brain/mind philosophy.Whether Zizek has any genuine contribution there is still an open question for me however.The writing is so uneven and eager to entertain, that it becomes difficult to decide whether even he is serious about this.

2-0 out of 5 stars A sloppy critique, One of Zizek's Worst
Zizek's failed encounter with Deleuze will prove to haunt him since Deleuze and Guattari provded a framework to get outside of Lacan which Zizek still remains embedded in completely.I should say from the start, Zizek is absolutely brilliant, but his slip ups are all too numerous and his hasty publication of books have created an unendurable repetition of content. There are content problems with the book and style problems, as many of the previous reviewers have truthfully attested to.But even the 100 or so pages on Deleuze are wrought with references to movies and books (and sometimes the occasional refreshing joke), but all in all, the book probably amounts to 30-40 real pages of thorough critique.The problem is that Zizek prepares books by writing books, and in reading the most recent big work - "The Parallax View" (which Zizek calls his most important work), one sees that the books of the previous 4 years were a type of movement towards this.

First I how those interested in Zizek might go about critiquing Deleuze which is coupled with recommendations for Zizek's other works.After that I will recommend an alternative route to people interested in a crtique of Deleuze (outside of those made in other reviews - such as "Deleuze: A Critical Reader")

If you want to get an idea of how to critique Deleuze through Zizek, I recommend reading Lacan very closely, and critiquing Deleuze through Lacan.But if Lacan is intractable for you, Zizek is a helpful guide to realize Lacan's contributions.I would even hasten to add that if one is unfamiliar with Lacan, one cannot account for the weaknesses and strengths of a text like anti-oedipus (which has the capacity to perform the same reduction on lacan).If one were to buy a book on Zizek, I think the least scatterbrained and most theoretical (Hegelian) is "For they know not what they do" but be sure to get the second edition with the very long preface (80 pgs) which reconfigures his position now with regard to his previous work.Organs without bodies is important to see how Zizek directly comprehends Deleuze's work (and at times, he reposes problems in interesting directions), but it will probably piss alot of Deleuzians off, andnot because his critiques are right on, but because he has hardly payed attention to the unique elements of Deleuze's philosophy (which is to say, he critiques Deleuze as if he would critique any positive thinker, without exploring in depth, the complexity of his system).

Zizek is most interesting for his Lacanian reading of Hegel, which is quite good, and very interesting.His main (hegelian) idea is that the ontological or the transcendental is created from the failure to fully represent the real.In Deleuzian terms, Zizek would say that the virtual is created from the inconsistency of the actual, which we then generalize into the virtual.Therefore, Deleuze's claims to "think without an image" are undoubtedly a way to make the reader forget Deleuze's own positioning (which is mainly from Nietzsche).And yes, for those of you who bash Hegel without ever having even read him, Deleuze is extremely close to Hegel in many ways, and if you don't understand how they are alike and different you don't really understand the problems either of them face.But Zizek treats this proximity as if it was an attack (which merely just calls into question Deleuze's own aversion to Hegel which does betray a proximity).This is immature, but perhaps is only as immature as Deleuze's aversion to Hegel.[But Deleuze never wrote a critique of Hegel in this fashion! As Zizek ahs done with Deleuze].

But Zizek did make me pay attention to key passages that I did not before, which accent the transcendental nature of Deleuze's empiricism.Zizek's own failure to critique Deleuze made me question my own (as other readers have) deification of Deleuze. I began to ask why Does Deleuze call his system "Transcendental Empiricism" if he destroys transcendence at every turn in favor of immanence?The answer is that Deleuze is situated in the transcendental turn in philosophy which reconcieves as the transcendental not the noumenal thing in itself (as in Kant), but rather the situation in which the noumenal and the phenomenal are limits [as in Heiddeger, Husserl, Lacan, and Merleu-Ponty](recall the passage in A thousand Plateaus that the body without organs is a limit).What this means is that Deleuze's concept of Difference cannot be concieved as something apart from the situation of the human being which does not have access to all of reality (recall Deleuze's claim that "Difference is not diversity, diversity is given, Difference is by which the given is given")This "by which" as Difference (and Derrida's Differance) makes Deleuze's immanence very problematic since this "middle" area is still human.The real problem is whether the structure of consciousness (expressionism) can be extended to the world "Everything is consciousness because it possesses a double" (Difference and Repetition, 220).This question is always the question they come back to, and it is the shakiest component of Deleuze's system.It is also the component that needs to be confronted via lacan, which unfortunately Zizek fails to do in a systematic way.Plus he writes the book After Deleuze dies, when Zizek had active engagement with his ideas very early on.

If anything, it is good to convince oneself that one is questioning one's own idols.If you want a breath of fresh air in philosophy, I recommend the books: "Contingency, Hegemony, Universality" which contains a dialog between Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek (he doesn't make stupid references every 5 seconds in this book).I also Recommend any book by Renaud Barbaras ("Desire and Distance" might be an extremely interesting counterpoint to Deleuze).Another book - "Naturalizing Phenomenology" is an essential book that deals with what Zizek does badly, how consciousness studies and cognitive studies contribute to these contemporary thinkers.

Whatever you decide, it is true that Zizek's critique is essential to understand in order to truly understand Deleuze's strengths and weaknesses, whether you get it from this book or others.If you can remain Deleuzian and take Lacanians seriously, you can only then call yourself Deleuzian.

3-0 out of 5 stars The view from page 74
Title says how far I am so far.I have to say I'm glad to see that the only person who really liked this book was a unabashed Lacanian.I was starting to get afraid that I had been inventing all the genius of Deleuze and Guattari, and that they may really be as circuitous and unoriginal as Zizek was making them out to be.
However, he (so typically) doesn't even discuss Guattari other than as an "alibi" for Deleuze (hardly a nice term for a very good if perhaps not-quite-so-published as some of our other philosophical friends).And, the only books by Deleuze that Zizek apparently deems worth citing directly are "Logic of Sense" and "Difference & Repetition".And, I have doubts about his readings of Deleuze that he actually does cite.But this is all been said in other reviews.
What I do find useful about this text (again, from the vantage point of pg. 74) is that it is a perfect example of the most common mis-reading of Deleuze that I have seen, and I think the easiest pitfall in reading him, or his collaborations with Guattari.Deleuze is not easy, and Guattari does not make him easier (although, perhaps, more effective; but this is another argument.I think that most people, at least those that I have read Deleuze with, think that he is merely redefining our notions of the real/virtual, material/ideal, world/spirit, consciousness/unconsciousness, duality/monism, etc.But what he is doing has little to do with dialectics.I think his contribution to philosophy both by himself and with the work of Guattari is to begin us thinking undialectically, as hard as this is at the start.Deleuze is by no means perfect, and it could be argued that he doesn't succeed in this task.But to take him in a caricature of dialecticism is to make the first mistake we all must make, and in this Zizek highlights that misstep.In this sense, I would agree with Eric Santner's statement on the back of the book, that all who consider themselves critics or passionate supporters of Deleuze should read this book.But most importantly, should see the strength of dialecticism in our thought, as Deleuze himself points out, and see how no arena or concept of thought is free from this mechanism, and that ESPECIALLY in reading Deleuze we should acknowledge the ease of an all too convenient return to the very thing that is so crucially critiqued in his work.

2-0 out of 5 stars Not to rely on deconstruction but...
I think there may be a hint of jealousy in this book.I've often thought of Zizek as the kind of guy who strives to be the rock star of philosophy. Of course, more than ten years after his death, Deleuze is packing more philosophical arenas than Zizek ever will.This is because, in my humble opinion, Zizek is and always will be a second rate philosopher.He is the Douglas Coupland of academic philosophy in that, while he is often an interesting read, one always walks away from the book feeling like they've gained nothing but a few perverse ways of stating the obvious.I will admit, Zizek has a flare for writing, notably, I think in the Ticklish Subject and Welcome to the Desert of the Real.But this book not only failed to accomplish it's goals but it did so rather uninterestingly.Somewhere around the end of the first third of the book he quotes Deleuze's famous passage about buggering other philosophers in the behind.I've always loved the passage and til that point I thought the book was heating up so I had hopes of engaging in an eye-opening debate about Deleuze with both the text and my own preconceptions.But what I got from that point on was a stream of endless, pretentious comparisions between what most people assume Hegel meant and what Zizek somehow interprets Deleuze to mean.

Basically, it seemed to me like Zizek's project was misguided in that it relied too heavily on a limited interpretation of Deleuze based on Zizek's slight admiration for the Logic of Sense and his disdain for Deleuze's work with Guattari.Zizek almost comes off as a crying child who wanted ice cream when everyone else wanted cake and couldn't have his way.He passes over without even the slightest mention the idea that perhaps A Thousand Plateau's truly is a revolutionary text (or radical series of texts - whatever).He does this because he likes better the ideas he has developed out of the Logic of Sense.

In other words, Zizek is fatalistically attached to the offspring that emerged when Deleuze's logic of sense poked him in the butt.The joke's on you, Slavoj! ... Read more


68. Joyce through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
by Shelly Brivic
Hardcover: 288 Pages (2008-09-15)
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Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.
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1-0 out of 5 stars Joyce Seen Afresh
Shelly Brivic begins his new study of Joyce by citing the concept of "sinthome," the recognition of how little we know. A "voluntary symptom aims at the unknown to discover new possibilities." . . . "The disparity between our language and what it reaches toward," but can never reach, helps explain the idiosyncracy of Wakean language. The language is not "realistic" because what we call the world is itself a construct, a fiction.Brivic's premise is that "Joyce . . . anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world, the only one we can ever know, is made of language," that unruly staff of mental servants.

Brivic finds that Joyce knew what Lacan and Zizek subsequently discovered.The Wake is, as Brivic demonstrates, a compendium of new conceptual possibilities and a far-reaching critique of patriarchy, empire, gender, and neat byways such as "reality as fetish."His book, alive with conceptual exploration, is also a treasury of close, unexpected readings of elusive passages in the Wake, and novel commentary on The Portrait and Ulysses.I think that this book is essential reading for scholars and students of Joyce's work. ... Read more


69. Cogito and the Unconscious(Series: SIC 2)
Paperback: 288 Pages (1998-01-01)
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The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito’s agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Without psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the Unconscious explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterized by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist."
Noting that for Lacan the Cartesian construct is the same as the Freudian "subject of the unconscious," the contributors follow Lacan’s plea for a psychoanalytic return to the cogito. Along the path of this return, they examine the ethical attitude that befits modern subjectivity, the inherent sexualization of modern subjectivity, the impasse in which the Cartesian project becomes involved given the enigmatic status of the human body, and the Cartesian subject’s confrontation with its modern critics, including Althusser, Bataille, and Dennett. In a style that has become familiar to Zizek’s readers, these essays bring together a strict conceptual analysis and an approach to a wide range of cultural and ideological phenomena—from the sadist paradoxes of Kant’s moral philosophy to the universe of Ayn Rand’s novels, from the question "Which, if any, is the sex of the cogito?" to the defense of the cogito against the onslaught of cognitive sciences.
Challenging us to reconsider fundamental notions of human consciousness and modern subjectivity, this is a book whose very Lacanian orthodoxy makes it irreverently transgressive of predominant theoretical paradigms. Cogito and the Unconscious will appeal to readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and theories of ideology.

Contributors. Miran Bozovic, Mladen Dolar, Alain Grosrichard, Marc de Kessel, Robert Pfaller, Renata Salecl, Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic

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70. The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (Wo Es War)
by Slavoj Zizek
Paperback: 288 Pages (1994-12)
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The recent experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author's analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of "The Crying Game" and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations. ... Read more


71. Was Sie immer schon über Lacan wissen wollten und Hitchcock nie zu fragen wagten.
by Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic, Stojan Pelko, Miran Bozovic, Renata Salecl
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72. Organos sin cuerpo (Spanish Edition)
by Slavoj Zizek
 Paperback: 80 Pages (2006-01-01)
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73. Virtue and Terror (Revolutions)
by Maximilien Robespierre
Paperback: 154 Pages (2007-01-17)
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A chilling exploration of Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution.Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of enlightenment. So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre's vindication of revolutionary terror? Zizek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Grappling with the "Incorruptible" and his vision in the present day & age
The very first point that should be made in this review is that this work is not, strictly speaking, for the layperson. If you do not have an adequate understanding of the chronology of the events, figures and terminology of the French Revolution then more likely than not you will be stumped by the introduction of the controversial philosopher Zizek and the even more enigmatic subject matter in question, Maximilien Robespierre. A quiet, soft-spoken lawyer from Arras, who gave up a judgeship because he could not countenance passing the death penalty in murder cases, Robespierre gained a reputation as the defender of the virtuous & the poor and was elected to the Estates-General in 1789 as a member of the Third Estate. Initially ridiculed for his weak speaking voice and ignored in National Assembly, Robespierre soon gained the full attention of not only the Assembly but also avast sea of admirers outside the Assembly. His democratic positions & proposals, such as opposition to censorship, opposition to the death penalty, against the property qualification for voting rights, for civil rights for Jews in France, and against the institution of slavery to name but a few, won him many supporters and a growing legion of bitter enemies. Robespierre's unimpeachable personal integrity was such that even his enemies acknowledged him as the "Incorruptible."It was Robespierre's proposal, a self-denying act, that ensured that members of the Constituent Assembly would not be eligible to sit in the Legislative Assembly. The Jacobin Club, the home of the "Society of the Friends of the Constitution," was where Robespierre and other democrats expounded on their political views during the period of the Legislative Assembly. After the horrific massacre of unarmed & peaceful protesters by the royalist reactionary Lafayette at the Champs de Mars in July 1791, it was Robespierre who almost single-handedly rebuilt the Jacobin Club as a cohesive body and added further to his already considerable stature as a democratic politician. Astute and lucid, Robespierre, apart from Jean-Paul Marat, was the only politician of stature who critically and vocally opposed going to war in 1792. He clearly foresaw, whether shackled by the chains of slavery or not as claimed by the opportunist Brissot, the people of Europe, or anywhere for that matter, would not welcome "armed missionaries" and he also warned that the only people to benefit from war would be profiteers and the military generals and in one prophetic speech saw the revolution being ended by a general. It was the insurrectionary Commune directed by Robespierre which finally delivered the death blow to the monarchy during the Revolution of 10 August and paved the way for the establishment of the Republic.Elected to the National Convention in September 1792, Robespierre was by now even more influential, and it was not just because he held considerable sway with the people of Paris, the San-Culottes, ever since the great journée of August 10, 1792. In July 1793, with every other major politician having failed to come to grips with the running of the war against the reactionary powers of Europe, Robespierre was hailed as the "man of destiny" when he was elected to the Committee of Public Safety, which was, since April 5, 1793 the executive body of the National Convention designed to harness the French nation for the war effort. The stream-lined Committee of Public Safety had evolved from the Committee of General Defence, an ungainly committee of twenty-four members, which had been created in January 1793. Apart from its large numbers, the Committee of General Defence had also been hampered by the fact that its meetings were held in public (hardly conducive to running a war effort) and with limited powers. The Committee of Public Safety rectified those shortcomings. The Committee which remained in office from July 1793 to July 1794 would see the successful defense of the Revolution, including using the extremely controversial "reign of terror." In July (Thermidor of the Revolutionary Calendar) 1794 Robespierre and other prominent members of the Jacobin Club were overthrown and executed. Did 9 Thermidor occur because revolutionaries such as Tallien and Fouché, disgusted with the excesses of the reign of terror and fearful of a dictatorship by the Incorruptible, acted to save the Republic? Unlikely, especially if one knows their records during the period. In fact, people such as Tallien and Fouché had been recalled to Paris precisely because the Robespierrists wanted them to answer charges for committing excesses in the name of the Convention and thereby bringing the Revolution into disrepute. Fouché, for example, on missions for the National Convention had played a conspicuous role in the "Dechristianization" campaigns, an activity vehemently deplored by Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety because it inflamed neutral or even pro-revolutionary opinion, and thereby added unnecessarily to the list of counter-revolutionaries. In the eyes of the Incorruptible such actions were no better than counter-revolutionary intrigues. Tallien, a vile opportunist, did not even have the excuse of Fouché for taking part in the Thermidorian Reaction. The only excuse this despicable wretch had for turning against the Revolution (but not before he had committed numerous horrors in the name of that Revolution) was that he had fallen in love with a depraved aristocrat, fittingly perhaps, as amoral as Tallien himself. It was precisely this group of corrupt and venal schemers that Robespierre was preparing to strike in Thermidor. Robespierre, during the struggle against the Gironde, had once famously stated that, "Virtue was always in a minority upon earth." Nowhere is this truth more evident than in the gathering of the cabal-compromised revolutionaries, schemers, embezzlers, corrupted politicians-that came together to destroy Robespierre on 9 Thermidor. There were some genuine revolutionaries, such as Barère, who took part, but what they did not realize, as has been stated so clearly by numerous historians, what in fact nobody realized at the time, was that by overthrowing the Committee of Public Safety, they were essentially ending the Revolution. To paraphrase that distinguished historian of the French Revolution, Albert Mathiez, in the person of the great Jacobin the Thermidorians had slain the democratic Republic for a century. It was in fact many years after 9 Thermidor of the Year II, that Barère, the "weather-vane of the Revolution" bitterly regretted turning against Robespierre on that fateful day. The representative-on-mission, Ingrand, did not even need hindsight to see what fate would befall the Revolutionary Government should Robespierre be violently ousted ; when accosted by the conspirators in the lead up to the ninth of Thermidor and upon being pressed to join them, Ingrand not only refused but also angrily warned that overthrowing Robespierre would mean nothing less than the death of the Republic. It is in this context that the calumnies heaped on Robespierre during the Thermidorian Reaction and after have to be understood. Consequently, once the Thermidorians had embarked on this sea of lies, reaching the port of royalism was not that difficult. As a result, it came as no surprise towards the end of the Directory Government that it was a Thermidorian, Paul Barras, who was plotting to bring about a restoration of the Bourbons. Robespierre's prescient and gloomy warning about the consequences of going to war in 1792 then came true; in the military coup of 18 Brumaire of the Year VIII the Republic was overthrown in all but in name by an ex-Jacobin general who had once been the protégé of Augustin Robespierre, the younger brother of the Incorruptible.It is all these issues thrown up by the French Revolution that the philosopher Zizek tries to grapple with in his introduction. The questions of political virtue, the political use of state terrorism, democracy, and other debates which find eerie resonance in the 21st century today. Zizek weaves comparisons with other historical events and figures, whether he is successful in making those connections, well, that is left entirely up to the individual reader. The collection of Robespierre's speeches are also very good examples of different stages of the Revolution and show the progression of events, and eventually the urgency as Revolutionary France fights for its very survival during 1793-1794. What does one make of Robespierre? Well, it really depends, ultimately, on one's own political proclivities and what one thinks of the radical phase of the French Revolution, indeed the purpose of the Revolution. Chou-en Lai had been reputedly asked by a journalist in the 1950s what he thought of the French Revolution. The Chinese revolutionary leader's response was that it was still too early to come to any conclusion, if at all. It is an answer that holds true in the present day and age, and as Zizek says, the perception of the French Revolution occilates according to the prevailing political climate in a given timeline. However, to give Ernest Hamel the last word, again to paraphrase one can love or hate Robespierre, but what one cannot do is belittle the man. It was Robespierre who came forward to take the responsibility for trying to save the Revolution, from a war which he himself had bitterly opposed. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that it was Robespierre's tremendous prestige that held the various factions together in the accomplishment of the great task, especially during Year II of the Republic. It was through this concerted effort that the Revolution was saved. Whatever one thinks of Robespierre cannot change that particular fact.

5-0 out of 5 stars Terror and Virtue
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74. Zizek and Heidegger: The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy)
by Thomas Brockelman
Hardcover: 208 Pages (2009-02-22)
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Filling a genuine gap in Zizek interpretation - through examining his relationship with Martin Heidegger, the author offers a new and useful overview of Zizek's work."Zizek and Heidegger" offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Zizek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Zizek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in Zizek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's technophobia.Brockelman's critique of Zizek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in Zizek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change.In addition to clarifying what Zizek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it, "Zizek and Heidegger" explores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in Zizek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand. ... Read more


75. Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (SPEP)
by Adrian Johnston
Paperback: 421 Pages (2005-07-27)
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Elaborating the fundamental concept of Trieb, or drive, Freud outlines two basic types of conflict that at once disturb and organize mental life: the conflict between drives and reality; and the conflict between the drives themselves (as in amorous Eros against the aggressive death drive). In Time Driven, Adrian Johnston identifies a third distinct type of conflict overlooked by Freud: the conflict embedded within each and every drive. By bringing this critical type of conflict to light and explaining its sobering consequences for an understanding of the psyche, Johnston's book makes an essential theoretical contribution to Continental philosophy. His work offers a philosophical interpretation and reassessment of psychoanalysis that places it in relationship to the larger stream of ideas forming our world and, at the same time, clarifies its original contribution to our understanding of the human situation.
Johnston draws on Jacques Lacan's oeuvre in conjunction with certain philosophical resources-elements from transcendental philosophy, structuralism, and phenomenology-to rectify the inconsistencies within the Freudian metapsychological model of drive. In doing so, he helps to answer a question haunting Freud at the end of his career: Why is humanity plagued by a perpetual margin of discontent, despite technological and cultural progress?
In Time Driven, Johnston is able to make sense of Freud's metapsychology both as a whole and in its historical development of Lacan's reinterpretation of Freud, and of the place of both Freud and Lacan in modern philosophy.
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4-0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Temporality Principle
Adrian Johnston gives us an ambitious and provocative book on psychoanalytic concept of the drive. What Johnston sets out to investigate is the place time has in Freud's theory of the drives. Freud famously said that the unconscious is without time, and yet psychoanalysis is rich in complicated temporalities, such as, the retroactive reconstruction of childhood memories. What role do these temporal torsions have in the structure of the drive? That such questions remain is evidence that Freud and Lacan failed to adequately theorize time. The basic idea behind Johnston's book is that the drive itself is split between an atemporal, noumenal, structure called the axis of iteration, which is the drive's constant pulsation, and a temporal, phenomenal, structure called the axis of alteration, which is an unfolding of the drive through its various object-representations.

Based solely on the question it poses, and the argument is espouses, Johnston's book is destined to be a CLASSIC of contemporary psychoanalytic literature--right up there with Sublime Object of Ideology and Read my Desire. That it has not already become the center of controversey is strange, since it make a powerful yet contentious critique of Freud. In other words, it avoids the trap of simply repeating psychoanalytic insights. Rather, it identifies a real problem, and goes to great lengths to resolve it.

I did not give it a full five stars because it has some weaknesses. The greatest drawback of the book is Johnston's style. The Preface, Introduction, and Conclusion are fabulously written. In many ways they encapsulate everything that is so great about the book. But almost every substantive chapter is not so well written. Every chapter contains an exhaustive historical account of the development of a concept, and one must always wait until the final sentences to get Johnston's thesis. The thesis is usually spot on, but the road getting there is exhausting and many times tedious. For example, Johnston makes a two chapter digression into Kantian philosophy to make the point that the psychoanalytic subject is split along temporal lines. This insight is great, but it did not demand nearly 70 pages of commentary on Kant to get there. If you have read Zizek's Tarrying with the Negative, then much of what Johnston has to say in these two chapters is redundant. I wished an editor would have forced Johnston to cut down much of his discourse to distill his major insights, which are as a rule fantastic. I would argue that the book could have easily been cut in half.

I would recommend that everyone interested in psychoanalysis pick up this book. But because of the way it is written, I would give this advice. If you are a new comer to psychoanalysis, read this word for word and you will walk away with a hefty but thorough introduction into psychoanalysis. Introductory seminars at the Graduate or Undergraduate level should assign this book (along with Bruce Fink's books). However, if you are a psychoanalysis veteran, then read the Preface, Introduction, and Conclusion thoroughly, and skim almost everything else.

Aside from its style, I detect other theoretical issues. One, Johnston seems to imply a stronger divergence between Freud and Lacan than I would suggest. Two, the solution that the drive is split between a noumenal and phenomenal realm is interesting but temptingly too simplistic.

All in all, a major work of psychoanalytic theory by a someone who is destined to be an important voice for a long time. Bravo!

4-0 out of 5 stars It is about time
Johnston's book delves rather deeply into topics that are rarely discussed in current psychoanalysis, namely, temporality and drive theory.Johnston reminds us that, unlike some current authors assume, Freud's drives are not monolithic entities, but rather composites of several different motivational and cognitive components.Johnston contends that Freud's distinctions between different pieces of a drive allow us to take these pieces and situate them in two mental time zones- one of timeless repetition of urges, the other of temporal alteration of what these urges aim for and toward whom they are directed.

To be sure, Johnston's book is somewhat uneven.Readers may find some of the earlier chapters digressive or simply awkward.However, those willing to push through these chapters will find that their understanding of Freud, drive theory, and the psychoanalysis of time will be considerably enriched, whether or not they find themselves agreeing with Johnston's conclusions. ... Read more


76. Die Tücke des Subjekts.
by Slavoj Zizek, Eva Gilmer, Anne von der Heiden, Hans Hildebrandt
Hardcover: 552 Pages (2001-05-01)
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77. Die Revolution steht bevor. Dreizehn Versuche über Lenin.
by Slavoj Zizek, Nikolaus G. Schneider
Paperback: 192 Pages (2002-11-01)
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78. Lacan
by Slavoj Zizek
Perfect Paperback: 176 Pages (2008-03-31)

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79. LA PARALLAXE
by Slavoj Zizek
Paperback: 458 Pages (2008-05-23)

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80. Willkommen in der Wüste des Realen
by Slavoj Zizek
Paperback: 227 Pages (2004-11-30)

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