Conversations with Zizek

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7456-2896-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’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.

- Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics.

- Illustrates the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.

- Provides a unique glimpse of Žižek’s humour and character and offers new material and fresh perspectives which will be of interest to followers of Žižek’s writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zizek, Slavoj

Daly, Glyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
1. Contexts and horizons: Opening the Space of Philosophy.

2. The Madness of Reason: Encounters of the Real Kind.

3. Subject of Modernity: Virtuality and the Fragility of the Real.

4. Tolerance and the Intolerable: Enjoyment, Ethics and Event.

5. Miracles do happen: Globalization(s) and Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Slavoj Zizek is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Ljubljana University, Slovenia.

Glyn Daly is at University College, Northampton.