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=====Book Description=====
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'''[[Zizek ]] returns to untangle a heady mix of [[fantasy ]] and [[ideology]]'''
“The Giant of [[Ljubljana ]] provides the best [[intellectual ]] high since Anti-[[Oedipus]].” — ''[[Voice ]] [[Literary ]] [[Supplement]]''
With his idiosyncratic blend of [[ideas ]] from [[Lacan ]] and [[Hegel]], the Slovenian [[philosopher ]] [[Slavoj Zizek ]] has emerged as one of the most original thinkers of our [[time]]. Never [[missing ]] an opportunity to recount a revealing anecdote or [[joke ]] his [[writing ]] is as entertaining as it is informative.
In his latest book, Zizek approaches [[another ]] enormous [[subject ]] with characteristic brio. The current epoch is, he claims, plagued by phantasms. There is an intensifying [[antagonism ]] between the ever greater abstraction of our lives … whether in the [[form ]] of [[digitalization ]] or [[market ]] relations and the deluge of pseudo-[[concrete ]] [[images ]] which surround us. Traditional critical [[thought ]] traces the connections between abstract notions and concrete [[social ]] [[reality]]: but today, Zizek suggests, the correct procedure is the [[inverse ]] … to [[work ]] from pseudo-concrete imagery towards the abstract.
Ranging in his examples from national differences in toilet [[design ]] to cybersex, and from intellectuals' responses to the Bosnian war to [[Robert Schumann]]'s [[music]], Zizek explores the relations between fantasy and ideology, the way in which fantasy animates [[enjoy]]-ment while protecting against its excesses, the [[associations ]] of the [[notion ]] of [[fetishism ]] with fantasized [[seduction]], and the ways in which digitalization and [[cyberspace ]] [[affect ]] the status of [[subjectivity]]. To the already initiated, The Plague of [[Fantasies ]] will be a welcome reminder of why they enjoy Zizek's writing so much. For new readers, it will be the beginning of a long and meaningful [[relationship]].
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Plague of Fantasies|The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War)]]'''''. [[London]]; New York: Verso. October 1997, Hardcover, 248 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 1859848575. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848575/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848575/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848575/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848575/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859848575/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr]</small> or Verso. November 1997, Paperback, 248 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 1859841937. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841937/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841937/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841937/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841937/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859841937/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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