Žižek Country : Mapping Speculative Thought / Sean Sheehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheehan, Sean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Žižek, Slavoj,.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Uncompromisingly radical, hypercerebral but also down to earth and irreverent, Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher whose thought is sometimes hard to plot a route through. Charting its innumerable hairpins and circuitous diversions, this cognitive map of Žižek country is a guide to its philosophical, psychoanalytic and political landscapes. Žižek’s prodigious output comprises a dense and layered critique of contemporary thought. Taking its lead from his web-like approach, Žižek Country is an A to Z of cross-referenced entries that covers the range of his preoccupations - from Terminator to the transcendental and Marx to the möbius strip. Each topic is explored both as a direct subject of Žižek’s focus and as a component of his broader philosophy. Every entry is fully referenced, pointing readers to the key points in his books and articles, as well as his many interviews, talks and panel discussions. Together, these ideas, threads, and repeated motifs give shape to a challenging, sometimes difficult philosophy that defies ready assimilation into academia and easy thinking.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Absolute Knowing 2. Absolute Recoil 3. Althusser, Louis 4. Antagonism 5. Antigone 6. Anti-Semitism 7. Appearance and Essence 8. Aristotle 9. Aufhebung 10. Badiou 11. Bartleby’s ‘I would prefer not to’ 12. ‘the beautiful soul’ 13. Beckett, Samuel 14. Benjamin, Walter 15. Big Other 16. Blade Runner 17. Buddhism 18. Capitalism 19. Christian Atheism 20. Cinema 21. Class Struggle 22. Commodity Fetishism 23. Communism 24. Concrete Universality 25. Contingency and Necessity 26. Contradiction 27. ‘cunning of reason’ 28. Deleuze 29. Descartes and the Cogito 30. Desire 31. Dialectic 32. Dialectical Materialism 33. Drive 34. Enunciated and Enunciation 35. Ethics 36. Event / Act 37. Fantasy 38. Freedom 39. Freud 40. Gaze 41. German Idealism 42. Hegel 43. Heidegger 44. Hysteria 45. Identity and Difference 46. Ideology 47. Infinity 48. Infinite Judgement 49. In-itself / For-Itself 50. jouissance 51. Kafka, Franz 52. Kant 53. Kierkegaard, Sören 54. Lacan 55. Lenin 56. Literary Criticism 57. Love 58. Luxemburg, Rosa 59. Lynch, David 60. Marx 61. The Matrix 62. Meillassoux, Quentin 63. ‘minimal difference’ 64. Neighbour 65. Negation of Negation 66. Negativity 67. ‘night of the world’ 68. Not-All / Non- All 69. objet petit a 70. Ontology 71. Other 72. Parallax 73. Partial Object 74. Perversion 75. Plato 76. Politics 77. Predestination 78. Psychoanalysis 79. Quantum Physics 80. Race 81. Rancière, Jacques 82. Real 83. Reflection 84. Retroactivity 85. Robespierre, Maximilien 86. Russian Revolution 87. Schelling, F. W. J. 88. Sexual 89. Sexual Difference 90. Shakespeare 91. sinthome 92. Speculative Reason 93. Spirit 94. ‘spirit is a bone’ 95. Stalinism 96. Subject 97. ‘subjective destitution’ 98. Substance as also Subject 99. Superego 100. Symbolic 101. Transcendental 102. Truth 103. Unconscious 104. Vertigo 105. Wokeness 106. Zupancic, Alenka Bibliography

ISBN:

9781350469020

OCLC:

1587899733