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Author Myers, Tony, 1969-

Title Slavoj Žižek / Tony Myers.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 142 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge critical thinkers
Routledge critical thinkers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-138) and index.
Contents Why Zizek? -- When Zizek shudders (we don't have to): popular culture and philosophy? -- Is this not the way to read Zizek? -- Subject of a biography: biography of a subject -- This book -- -- Key ideas -- Who are Zizek's influences and how do they affect his work? -- Zizek's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis -- Hegel -- Marx -- Lacan -- The imaginary -- The symbolic -- The real -- The philosopher of the real -- -- What is a subject and why is it so important? -- The cogito -- The cogito and the post-structuralists -- Madness: the vanising mediator between nature and culture -- The birth of God: reading the cogito via Schelling -- From subject to subjectivization -- -- What is so terrible about postmodernity? -- The postmodern risk society -- The disintegration of the big other -- The postmodern superego: enjoy! -- Keeping it real: the return of the other -- The act -- -- How can we distinguish reality from ideology? -- False consciousness and cynicism -- Belief machines -- The three modes of ideology -- The spectre that haunts reality -- What is the relationship between men and women? -- The formulae of sexuation -- 'Woman does not exist' -- 'Women is a symptom of man' -- 'There is no sexual relationship' -- -- Why is racism always a fantasy? -- 'Che vuoi?': 'what do you want from me?' -- Looking through the fantasy window -- The ethnic fantasy -- The ethics of fantasy -- -- After Zizek -- The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Zizek -- Leftism -- Universal criticism -- The retroactive Zizek.
Summary Tony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas, explaining the main influences on Zizek's thought, most crucially his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis, using examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life.
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Subject Žižek, Slavoj.
Žižek, Slavoj.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Myers, Tony, 1969- Slavoj Žižek. 1st ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 041526264X 0415262658 (DLC) 2003004342 (OCoLC)51810777
ISBN 0203634403 (electronic book)
9780203634400 (electronic book)
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0415262658
9780415262644
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0415262658 (Paper)
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