Žižek and Heidegger the question concerning techno-capitalism Thomas Brockelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brockelman, Thomas P., author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Capitalism--Philosophy.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Žižek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in Žižek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's techno-phobia. Brockelman's critique of Žižek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in Žižek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change. In addition to clarifying what Žižek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it, Žižek and Heidegger explores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in Žižek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand

Contents:

Preface: Le Style Zizek and the Question of Finitude Part I: Zizek and Heidegger: The Alpha and the Omega 1. Thinking, Finitely: Zizek on Heidegger on Finitude 2. Zizek and the Other Heidegger: Technology and Danger Part II: Slowing Zizek Down: Modernity and Techno-Capitalism 3. Missing the Point: Slavoj Zizek on Perspective, Modernity and Subjectivity 4. The Techno-Capitalist Danger: Ideology and Contemporary Society Part III: The Split Subject of History 5. Splitting History: Zizek on Utopia and Revolution 6. The Pervert and the Philosopher (as witnessed by) the Theologian and the Analyst Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-167) and index

ISBN:

9786612871115

9781472547873

147254787X

9781282871113

1282871110

9781441106902

1441106901

OCLC:

676698449