The truth of Žižek / edited by Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Paul, 1971-

Stamp, Richard, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj.

Physical Description:

xvi, 276 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.

Summary:

Slavoj Zizek is widely regarded as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers. His vociferous and challenging body of work amounts to a sustained, terrain-shifting and far reaching intervention into a wide range of academic disciplines, intellectual fields and cultural debates. Accordingly, Zizek's work demands a rigorous critical assessment. The Truth of Zizek is a major response to this demand: addressing the full range of Zizek's interventions and critically assessing the political, philosophical, psychoanalytical, cultural and institutional stakes of his ideas. The Truth of Zizek provides the first sustained assessment of the significant impact of Zizek's work.

Contents:

Simon Critchley Foreword: Why Zizek Must Be Defended xi

/ Paul Bowman, Richard Stamp Editors' Introduction: Is This not Precisely...The Truth of Zizek? 1

/ Leigh Claire La Berge The Writing Cure: Slavoj Zizek, Analysand of Modernity 9

/ Paul Bowman The Tao of Zizek 27

/ Mark Devenney Zizek's Passion for the Real: The Real of Terror, The Terror of the Real 45

/ Jeremy Gilbert All the Right Questions, All the Wrong Answers 61

/ Iain Hamilton Grant The Insufficiency of Ground: On Zizek's Schellingianism 82

/ Oliver Marchart Acting and the Act: On Slavoj Zizek's Political Ontology 99

/ John Mowitt Trauma Envy 117

/ Ian Parker The Truth about Over-identification 144

/ Richard Stamp 'Another Exemplary Case': Zizek's Logic of Examples 161

/ Jeremy Valentine Denial, Anger and Resentment 177

/ Slavoj Zizek Afterword: With Defenders Like These, Who Needs Attackers? 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826490605

0826490603

0826490611

9780826490612

OCLC:

81453245