Slavoj Zizek - A Critical Introduction

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Slavoj Zizek : a critical introduction - Žižek, Slavoj; Žižek, Slavoj; Parker, Ian
Žižek, Slavoj; Žižek, Slavoj; Parker, Ian
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Series: Modern European thinkers
Publisher: Pluto Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
ISBN: 0-7453-2072-4,9780745320724,9781849641975,1849641978,0-7453-2071-6
Time Added: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:02:04 GMT+0300 (MSK)
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: pdf
Size: 738 kb
City: London, Sterling, Va
Pages: 184
Id: 1430595
Time Modified: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:02:04 GMT+0300 (MSK)
Extension: pdf
Bibtex: "Žižek and Slavoj; Žižek and Slavoj; Parker and Ian",
"Slavoj Zizek : a critical introduction"
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Since the publication of his first book in English in 1989, Slavoj Zizek has quickly become one of the most widely read and contentious intellectuals alive today. With dazzling wit and tremendous creativity he has produced innovative and challenging explorations of Lacan, Hegel and Marx, and used his insights to exhilarating effect in analyses of popular culture. While Zizek is always engaging, he is also elusive and even contradictory. It can be very hard to finally determine where he stands on a particular issue. Is Zizek Marxist or Post-Marxist? How seriously should we take his recent turn to Christianity? Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction shows the reader a clear path through the twists and turns of Zizek's writings. Ian Parker takes Zizek's treatment of Hegel, Lacan and Marx in turn and outlines and assesses Zizek's interpretation and extension of these thinkers' theories. While Parker is never hastily dismissive of Zizek's innovations, he remains critical throughout, aware that the energy of Zizek's writing can be bewitching and beguiling as well as engaging and profound.</DIV>