{"product_id":"the-zizek-reader-isbn-9780631212003","title":"The Zizek Reader","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Zizek Reader\u003c\/i\u003e - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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'. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCollects work by one of the most arresting and scandalous thinkers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAids the reader to understand the often complex thinking of both Lacan and Zizek\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Preface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Spectre of Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Fantasy as a Political Category.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Woman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. There is No Sexual Relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Death and the Maiden.\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Kant with (or against) Sade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Of Cells and Selves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj Žižek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"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.\" \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Zizek Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Wright\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practise\u003c\/i\u003e (1984; second edition 1998), \u003ci\u003ePost-modern Brecht: A Representation\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), and she is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and co-editor of Coming Out of Feminism? (1998).  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmond Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and free-lance philosopher. He has published regularly in the philosophical journals on language, perception, and epistemology. He has written \u003ci\u003eThe Horwich Hennets\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eThe Jester Hennets\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), and he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE ŽIŽEK READER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by Elizabeth Wright and Edmond Wright\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Zizek Reader\u003c\/i\u003e – which includes a Preface 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', 'the Giant of Ljubljana… the best intellectual high since \u003ci\u003eAnti-Oedipus\u003c\/i\u003e'. His work is an extraordinary 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into three parts – Culture, Woman and Philosophy – the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e not only provides careful explications of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework. The essays on woman offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. In fact, at this collection dazzlingly demonstrates, Zizek provides us with one of the most limpid and persuasive readings so far produced of Lacan's difficult thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990377709797,"sku":"NP9780631212003","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631212003.jpg?v=1761787582","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-zizek-reader-isbn-9780631212003","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}