Conversations with Žižek / Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Žižek, Slavoj.

Contributor:

Daly, Glyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj--Interviews.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Philosophers--Slovenia--Interviews.

Philosophers.

Philosophy.

Slovenia.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

171 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : In association with Blackwell Pub. ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Summary:

In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace, film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Zizek elaborates on a range of topics which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much more. This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Zizek's humour and character, and is an ideal introduction to his work. At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural studies and politics.

Contents:

Introduction: Risking the impossible

Opening the space of philosophy

The madness of reason : encounters of the real kind

Subjects of modernity : virtuality and the fragility of the real

Tolerance and the intolerable : enjoyment, ethics and event

Miracles do happen : globalization(s) and politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-168) and index.

ISBN:

0745628966

0745628974

OCLC:

51984921