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Author: Jones Irwin
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1441111786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew interviews with Slavoj Žižek and his contemporaries, accompanied by critical analysis of the wider Slovenian philosophical and cultural context that spawned their thought.
Author: Jones Irwin
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1441105131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew interviews with Slavoj Žižek and his contemporaries, accompanied by critical analysis of the wider Slovenian philosophical and cultural context that spawned their thought.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1993-10-19
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780822313953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA theoretical analysis of social conflict that uses examples from Kant, Hegel, Lacan, popular culture and contemporary politics to critique nationalism./div
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2012-05-22
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 1844678970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011-01-10
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1844676684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci’s notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a globalized economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory. While the rigor and intelligence with which these writers approach their work is formidable, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality benefits additionally from their clear sense of energy and enjoyment in a revealing and often unpredictable exchange.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781682192818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent." The contemporary relevance of Mao's observation depends on whether today's catastrophes can be a catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in heaven itself. Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Žižek's new book treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and Chile, France and Kurdistan, and beyond. Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Žižek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation, and--above all--an urgent, "wartime" communism.
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009-12-14
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 0745640974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? 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.
Author: Adrian Johnston
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008-03-19
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0810124564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy taking this avowal seriously, Adrian Johnston finally clarifies the philosophical project underlying Žižek’s efforts.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1781683700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Zizek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal. For this edition, Zizek has written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
