Conversations with Zizek
Samenvatting
In this new book, Slavoj i ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of i ek s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today.
i ek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics.
Illustrates the originality of i ek s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi–culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
Provides a unique glimpse of i ek s humour and character and offers new material and fresh perspectives which will be of interest to followers of i ek s writings.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>1. Contexts and horizons: Opening the Space of Philosophy.</p>
<p>2. The Madness of Reason: Encounters of the Real Kind.</p>
<p>3. Subject of Modernity: Virtuality and the Fragility of the Real.</p>
<p>4. Tolerance and the Intolerable: Enjoyment, Ethics and Event.</p>
<p>5. Miracles do happen: Globalization(s) and Politics</p>