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+ | ''The [[Parallax]] View'' is Slavoj [[Zizek]]'s most substantial [[theoretical]] [[work]] to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the [[apparent]] [[displacement]] of an [[object]], caused by a [[change]] in observational [[position]]. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no [[synthesis]] or mediation is possible, linked by an "[[impossible]] short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of [[dialectical]] [[materialism]]. | ||
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+ | Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's [[theory]], from the wave-particle [[duality]] in quantum [[physics]] to the parallax of the [[unconscious]] in [[Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]] between [[interpretations]] of the [[formation]] of the unconscious and theories of [[drives]]. In ''The [[Parallax View]]'', Zizek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on [[three]] main modes of parallax: the [[ontological]] [[difference]], the ultimate parallax that [[conditions]] our very access to [[reality]]; the [[scientific]] parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal [[experience]] of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain [[sciences]] (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat--a condition Zizek calls "the unbearable lightness of [[being]] no one"); and the [[political]] parallax, the [[social]] [[antagonism]] that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Zizek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics--including an [[ethical]] act in a novel by Henry [[James]] and anti-[[anti-Semitism]]. | ||
+ | ''The Parallax View'' not only expands Zizek's [[Lacanian]]-[[Hegelian]] approach to new domains (notably cognitive [[brain sciences]]) but also provides the systematic exposition of the [[conceptual]] framework that underlies his entire work. [[Philosophical]] and theological [[analysis]], detailed readings of [[literature]], [[cinema]], and [[music]] coexist with lively anecdotes and [[obscene]] [[jokes]]. | ||
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+ | |width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Parallax View|The Parallax View (Short Circuits)]]'''''. Cambridge: The MIT Press. February 17, 2006, Hardcover, 528 pages, [[Language]] [[English]], ISBN: 0262240513. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262240513/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262240513/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262240513/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262240513/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262240513/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small> | ||
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