{"product_id":"zizek-isbn-9780470674758","title":"Zizek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores Zizek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Epigraphs ix  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eThe Sublime Object of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eFor They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor\u003c\/i\u003e 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eLooking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 \u003ci\u003eEnjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out\u003c\/i\u003e 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 \u003ci\u003eTarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 \u003ci\u003eThe Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality\u003c\/i\u003e 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 \u003ci\u003eThe Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters\u003c\/i\u003e 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 \u003ci\u003eThe Plague of Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 \u003ci\u003eThe Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology\u003c\/i\u003e 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway\u003c\/i\u003e 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 \u003ci\u003eThe Fragile Absolute: or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?\u003c\/i\u003e 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 \u003ci\u003eOn Belief\u003c\/i\u003e 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 \u003ci\u003eThe Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kies´lowski between Theory and Post-Theory\u003c\/i\u003e 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 \u003ci\u003eDid Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion\u003c\/i\u003e 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the Desert of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 \u003ci\u003eThe Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 \u003ci\u003eOrgans without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 \u003ci\u003eIraq: The Borrowed Kettle\u003c\/i\u003e 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 \u003ci\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/i\u003e 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 \u003ci\u003eViolence\u003c\/i\u003e 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Conclusion 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 322\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eKelsey Wood\u003c\/b\u003e has taught philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, at Boston University, and at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eroubling Play:  Meaning and Entity in Plato's\u003c\/i\u003e Parmenides (2005), and \u003ci\u003ePlato's Later Dialectic and Continental Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). Slavoj Zizek is widely regarded as the most significant and provocative thinker of our age. He integrates concepts from the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan with Hegel's dialectical method in philosophy, for a radically new vision of human nature and human society. Zizek has written-with humor, lucidity, and extraordinary erudition-on the philosophical problem of identity, ontology, globalization, postmodernism, political philosophy, literature, film, ecology, religion, the French Revolution, Lenin, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZizek: A Reader's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e situates Zizek's wide-ranging work in the broader context of continental philosophy, engages its precedents, and provides an overview of its main preoccupations, providing a backstory for both the philosopher and the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving deftly through the work of G.W.F. Hegel, F.W.J. Schelling, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and Alain Badiou, in addition to Lacan, this reader's guide offers a comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e  Wood provides an excellent guidebook through ?i?ek’s thought. This book is a tremendously clear, thorough and valuable resource for anyone interested in the most influential philosopher of our time.\u003cbr\u003e -Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kelsey Wood has done something simple and invaluable: a comprehensive account of all ?i?ek's books in English. Apart from providing an indespensible tool and a reference book for the future, he has done a lot more than that, for on each page his account is engaged, passionate, well informed and insightful, displaying a deep understanding of ?i?ek's thought and its development.\u003cbr\u003e -Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990517792997,"sku":"NP9780470674758","price":105.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470674758.jpg?v=1761788149","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/zizek-isbn-9780470674758","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}