Zizek Reader

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-631-21200-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 345 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Elizabeth

Wright, Edmond

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Žižek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wright is a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Her main work is in psychoanalytic literary criticism and she has written extensively in this area. She is author of Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practise (1984; second edition 1998), Post-modern Brecht: A Representation (1989), and she is also the editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (1992) and co-editor of Coming Out of Feminism? (1998).

Edmond Wright is a poet and free-lance philosopher. He has published regularly in the philosophical journals on language, perception, and epistemology. He has written The Horwich Hennets (1976) and The Jester Hennets (1981), and he is the editor of New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception (1993).