Interrogating the Real

by Slavoj Zizek, Rex Butler (Editor), Scott Stephens (Editor)

Overview

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of Žižek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472510839
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	600 KB

About the Author

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

Rex Butler is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (Sage, 1999).

Scott Stephens is Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Politics, Brisbane, Australia.
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a
Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist.
He is International Director at the Birkbeck
Institute for Humanities, University of
London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New
York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was born, is writing books, and will die.
Rex Butler is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999).
Scott Stephens is Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Politics, Brisbane, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface, Slavoj Žižek\'The Thing Itself' Appears: Introducing the Work of SlavojŽižek, Rex Butler andScott Stephens\Part One: Lacanian Orientations\1. The Societyfor Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia\2. Why Lacan is Hegelian\3. The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan\4. Connections of theFreudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture\5. Lacan between CulturalStudies and Cognitivism\Part Two: Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis \6. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis\7. A Hair of theDog That Bit You\8. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows\9. The Eclipse of Meaning:On Lacan and Deconstruction\10. The Parallax View\Part Three: The Fantasy ofIdeology\11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards aLacanian Theory of Ideology\12. Beyond Discourse Analysis\13. Re-visioning'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and its Obscene Double\14. Why is WagnerWorth Saving?\15. The Real of Sexual Difference\Glossary.

Editorial Reviews

'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.' Terry Eagleton” —Blurb from reviewer

“'One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left.' TLS” —Blurb from reviewer

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