Conversations with Zizek

In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace, film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Zizek elaborates on a range of topics which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much more.

This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Zizeks humour and character, and is an ideal introduction to his work. At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural studies and politics.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Contexts and horizons: Opening the Space of Philosophy.
2. The Madness of Reason: Encounters of the Real Kind.
3. Subject of Modernity: Virtuality and the Fragility of the Real.
4. Tolerance and the Intolerable: Enjoyment, Ethics and Event.
5. Miracles do happen: Globalization(s) and Politics

About the author

Slavoj Zizek is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Ljubljana University, Slovenia.
Glyn Daly is at University College, Northampton.

Summary

In this new book, Slavoj i ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of i ek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Slavoj 142;I&158;Ek, Â&, Slavoj Â&142;iâ&158;ek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek, Glyn Daly, Glyn (University College Northampton) Daly, Daly Glyn, Slavoj i ek, Slavoj I?Ek, Zi&, S Zizek, Slavoj Zizek
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2003
• EAN: 9780745628967
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-2896-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Conversations; Cons - Conversation Series; Conversations
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Western philosophy from c 1800, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -