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The Zizek Reader Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)

The Zizek Reader By Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)

The Zizek Reader by Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)

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Zizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy.

The Zizek Reader Summary

The Zizek Reader by Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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

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The Zizek Reader Reviews

"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades." Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford

"The Zizek Reader is an excellent introduction to his thinking and contains the first systematic criticism of his work, in editorial introductions to each essay. In his own preface, Zizek makes his gambit explicit by his categorical rejection of the 'hegemonic trends' of today's academia." The Independent

About Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)

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).

Table of Contents

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 Zizek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.

Index.

Additional information

NPB9780631212003
9780631212003
0631212000
The Zizek Reader by Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)
Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)
Wiley Blackwell Readers
New
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1999-01-14
346
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