UID:
almafu_9959233707102883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-62057-6
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9786612620577
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0-7486-4222-6
Content:
This book provides students and experts alike with a new kind of introduction to Slavoj Zizek's political theory. Going beyond recounting Zizek's positions on ideology, capitalism, Leninism, Stalinism, fascism, and related matters, it offers readers an argumentative reconstruction of Zizek's ideas which places his prolific output in critical dialogue with political philosophy, critical theory, and the history of ideas.But this reconstruction is also a cautionary tale. It argues that Zizek, since 1995, has turned away from the Lacanian and Hegelian insights that made his first works so ground-b
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Expanded Contents List; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One Žižek; Chapter 1 Žižek and the Radical- Democratic Critique of Ideology; Chapter 2 Retrieving the Subject: Žižek's Theoretical Politics; Chapter 3 Did Žižek Say Democracy?; Inter- chapter Žižek's Vanishing Mediation; Part Two Žižek; Chapter 4 Postmodernity and the Society of Generalised Perversion; Chapter 5 Žižek's Vanguard Politics; Chapter 6 Religion and the Politics of Universal Truth; Conclusion; References; Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-3803-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748642229
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748642229
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748642229
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748642229
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748642229
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