{"product_id":"the-zizek-reader-isbn-9780631212010","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Zizek Reader\u003c\/i\u003e - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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 \u003cp\u003ePreface: Burning the Bridges by \u003ci\u003eSlavoj Zizek \u003c\/i\u003evii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Culture 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment: How popular culture can serve as an Introduction to Lacan 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Spectre of Ideology 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Woman 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist' 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. There is No Sexual Relationship 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Death and the Maiden 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Philosophy 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Kant with (or against) Sade 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Of Cells and Selves 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj Žižek: Bibliography of Worlds in English 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 323\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  \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 \u003ci\u003eComing Out of Feminism?\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). \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\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His most recent works include \u003ci\u003eTarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague of Fantasies,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ticklish Subject: A Treatise on Political Ontology.\u003c\/i\u003e Slavoj Zizek has over the last decade become something of a cultural phenomenon, 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 a flamboyant 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. As a consequence, it is also one of the most lucid and persuasive readings of Lacan's difficult thought.\u003c\/p\u003e  The Zizek Reader – 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.\u003cbr\u003e Divided into three parts – Culture, Woman and Philosophy – the Reader 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.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990377808101,"sku":"NP9780631212010","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631212010.jpg?v=1761787583","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-zizek-reader-isbn-9780631212010","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}