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Zizek and Politics : A Critical Introduction
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharpe, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Zizek, Slavoj.
- Local Subjects:
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Zizek, Slavoj.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides students and experts alike with a new kind of introduction to Slavoj Zizek's political theory. Going beyond recounting Zizek's positions on ideology, capitalism, Leninism, Stalinism, fascism, and related matters, it offers readers an argumentative reconstruction of Zizek's ideas which places his prolific output in critical dialogue with political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of ideas.But this reconstruction is also a cautionary tale. It argues that Zizek, since 1995, has turned away from the Lacanian and Hegelian insights that made his first works so ground-b
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Expanded Contents List; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One Žižek; Chapter 1 Žižek and the Radical- Democratic Critique of Ideology; Chapter 2 Retrieving the Subject: Žižek's Theoretical Politics; Chapter 3 Did Žižek Say Democracy?; Inter- chapter Žižek's Vanishing Mediation; Part Two Žižek; Chapter 4 Postmodernity and the Society of Generalised Perversion; Chapter 5 Žižek's Vanguard Politics; Chapter 6 Religion and the Politics of Universal Truth; Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612620577
- 9781282620575
- 1282620576
- 9780748642229
- 0748642226
- OCLC:
- 638860025
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