Interrogating the Real
by Slavoj Žižek
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Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture. Thematically organised, the book is divided into three sections and includes a new preface by Zizek himself, as well as an introduction by the editors and a helpful glossary for those coming to Zizek's work for show more the first time. This collection, along with the second volume - The Universal Exception - is an excelle show lessTags
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So to pursue a rather tasteless metaphor, Hegel was not a sublimated shit-eater, as the usual description of the dialectical process would have us believe.
This sprawling collection of essays is really predicated on a sophisticated facility with both Hegel and Lacan. I am afraid I don't meet that standard
There are pieces on Derrida and on opera, particularly Wagner, and those were rather enjoyable. The others were a summer long slog. The political aspects covered were exclusively abstract. The embrace/disdain of Derrida's eternally deferred democracy is intriguing, I wish there were opportunities to posit this discussion further.
This sprawling collection of essays is really predicated on a sophisticated facility with both Hegel and Lacan. I am afraid I don't meet that standard
There are pieces on Derrida and on opera, particularly Wagner, and those were rather enjoyable. The others were a summer long slog. The political aspects covered were exclusively abstract. The embrace/disdain of Derrida's eternally deferred democracy is intriguing, I wish there were opportunities to posit this discussion further.
I am trying so hard to get through it, but this book is seriously kick my ass.
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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, as well as critique of ideology and art, including show more Event, and Trouble in Paradise, both published by Melville House. show less
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 199.4973 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Philosophy in other geographic areas Europe Other European Countries Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina ∙ Croatia ∙ Kosovo ∙ Montenegro ∙ Macedonia ∙ Serbia ∙ Slovenia) Slovenia
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- B4870 .Z591 .B88 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern By region or country
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