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Informationen zum Autor Kelsey Wood has taught philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, at Boston University, and at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Troubling Play: Meaning and Entity in Plato's Parmenides (2005), and Plato's Later Dialectic and Continental Philosophy (forthcoming). Klappentext A comprehensive overview of Slavoj ?i?ek's thought, including all of his published works to date.* Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future* Identifies the major currents in ?i?ek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding* Explores ?i?ek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies* Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology Zusammenfassung A comprehensive overview of Slavoj ?i?ek's thought, including all of his published works to date.* Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future* Identifies the major currents in ?i?ek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding* Explores ?i?ek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies* Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology Inhaltsverzeichnis Epigraphs ixAcknowledgments x1 Introduction 12 The Sublime Object of Ideology 463 For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor 554 Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture 665 Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out 756 Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology 947 The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality 1088 The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters 1159 The Plague of Fantasies 12510 The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology 13611 The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway 14612 The Fragile Absolute: or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? 15513 On Belief 16314 The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kies¿lowski between Theory and Post-Theory 17115 Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion 18016 Welcome to the Desert of the Real 19317 The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity 20118 Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences 21219 Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle 22020 How to Read Lacan 22721 The Parallax View 23722 In Defense of Lost Causes 24923 Violence 25724 First as Tragedy, then as Farce 26725 Living in the End Times 27826 Conclusion 295Further Reading 315Index 322...
