Traversing the Fantasy
Critical Responses to Slavoj Zizek
Published on 28. November 2005
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-0-7546-5192-5 (ISBN)
Description
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most provocative and important thinkers writing in contemporary philosophy. This book is an engaged debate with Zizek. It contains a series of specially commissioned critical essays from an impressive collection of contributors covering the full extent of his oeuvre. Essays examine Zizek on cultural theory, film studies, ethics, political theory, social theory, Kant and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In the spirit of Zizek's own interventions, these essays critically interrogate his ideas, challenging him to respond directly which he does in an extended polemical reply that concludes the collection. This volume represents an exciting and important contribution to contemporary theoretical debate and adds significantly to the growing literature on Zizek.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-5192-5 (9780754651925)
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Persons
Geoff Boucher is in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Deakin University, Australia. Jason Glynos is in the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK. Matthew Sharpe is in the Department of Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia.
Content
Introduction: Traversing the Fantasy, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe; Part 1 Psychoanalysis: The politics of style in the works of Slavoj Zizek, Justin Clemens; The law as a thing: Zizek and the graph of desire, Geoff Boucher; Part 2 Culture: Flesh for fantasy: aesthetics, the fantasmatic, and film noir, Robert Miklitsch; Zizek and Deleuze, Ian Buchanan; Part 3 Ideology: What If God was one of us - Zizek's ontology, Robert Paul Resch; Where is your hamster? The concept of ideology in Zizek's cultural theory, Robert Pfaller; Part 4 Politics: 'Well-placed reflections': on woman as symptom of man, Sarah Herbold; What's left in Zizek? The antinomies of Zizek's sociopolitical reason, Matthew Sharpe; Part 5 Ethics: The lure of Antigone: Aporias of an ethics of the political, Yannis Stavrakakis; Absolute freedom and major structural change, Russell Grigg; Part 6 Philosophy: The eclipse of coincidence: Lacan, merleau-Ponty and Zizek's misreading of Schelling, Peter Dews; Part 7 Reply: Concesso non Dato, Slavoj Zizek; Bibliography; Index.