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− | Žižek, S. (1999) The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political
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− | Hailed by some critics as Žižek's most important work to date, it
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− | is - judging by the number of articles it has spawned - certainly one
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− | of his most comprehensive monographs. Its central thesis is that the
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− | nursery tale' of the cogito which has dominated modern thought (in
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− | its guise as the self transparent thinking subject) is, in fact, a misnomer
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− | that fails to acknowledge the cogito's constitutive moment of madness.
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− | Structured in three parts, the book takes to task critics of Cartesian
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− | subjectivity in the fields of German Idealism, French political philos-
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− | ophy and Anglo-American cultural studies, directing blame for contem-
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− | porary scientific and technological catastrophes away from the cogito
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− | and laying it squarely at the door of capitalism. While the overall philo-
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− | sophical argument is enjoyable in itself, Žižek also delivers a series of
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− | fascinating local insights which range across all aspects of political,
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− | cultural and social life. While parts of the book are very demanding
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− | - and to that end I would not recommend it to a first-time Žižek
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− | reader it does reward your patience.
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