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WHY ŽIŽEK?
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= WHY ŽIŽEK? =
When ŽižeA shudders (we don't have to): popular culture and philosophy?  
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== Popular culture and philosophy? ==
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Is this not the way to read Žižek?  
 
Is this not the way to read Žižek?  
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Subject of a biography: biography of a subject  
 
Subject of a biography: biography of a subject  
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This book  
 
This book  
  
KEY IDEAS
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= KEY IDEAS =
Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work?
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== Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work? ==
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ŽižeA's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis  
 
ŽižeA's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis  
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Hegel
 
Hegel
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Marx  
 
Marx  
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Lacan
 
Lacan
The Irnaginary
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The Imaginary
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The Symbolic
 
The Symbolic
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The Real
 
The Real
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The philosopher of the Real  
 
The philosopher of the Real  
  
  
What is a subject and why is it so important?
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== What is a subject and why is it so important? ==
 
The cogito  
 
The cogito  
 
The cogito and the post-structuralists  
 
The cogito and the post-structuralists  
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What is so terrible about postmodernity
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== What is so terrible about postmodernity
 
The postmodern risk society  
 
The postmodern risk society  
 
The disintegration of the big Other  
 
The disintegration of the big Other  
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How can we distinguish reality from ideology?
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== How can we distinguish reality from ideology?
 
False consciousness and cynicism  
 
False consciousness and cynicism  
 
Belief machines  
 
Belief machines  
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What is the relationship between men and women?
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== What is the relationship between men and women?
 
The formulae of sexuation  
 
The formulae of sexuation  
 
'Woman does not exist'  
 
'Woman does not exist'  
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Why is racism always a fantasy?
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== Why is racism always a fantasy?
 
'Che vuoi?': 'What do you want from rne?'  
 
'Che vuoi?': 'What do you want from rne?'  
 
LooAing through the fantasy window  
 
LooAing through the fantasy window  
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AFTER ŽIŽEK
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= AFTER ŽIŽEK =
 
The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Žižek  
 
The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Žižek  
 
Leftism  
 
Leftism  
 
Universal criticism  
 
Universal criticism  
 
The retroactive ŽižeA
 
The retroactive ŽižeA

Revision as of 02:52, 30 April 2006

WHY ŽIŽEK?

Popular culture and philosophy?

Is this not the way to read Žižek?

Subject of a biography: biography of a subject

This book

KEY IDEAS

Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work?

ŽižeA's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis

Hegel

Marx

Lacan

The Imaginary

The Symbolic

The Real

The philosopher of the Real



What is a subject and why is it so important?

The cogito The cogito and the post-structuralists Madness: the vanishing roediator between nature and culture The birth of God: reading the cog ito via Schelling From subject to subjectivization


== What is so terrible about postmodernity The postmodern risk society The disintegration of the big Other The postrnodern superego: enjoy! Keeping it real: the return of the Other The act


== How can we distinguish reality from ideology? False consciousness and cynicism Belief machines The three modes of ideology The spectre that haunts reality


== What is the relationship between men and women? The formulae of sexuation 'Woman does not exist' 'Woman is a syrnptorn of Man' 'There is no sexual relationship'


== Why is racism always a fantasy? 'Che vuoi?': 'What do you want from rne?' LooAing through the fantasy window The ethnic fantasy The ethics of fantasy


AFTER ŽIŽEK

The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Žižek Leftism Universal criticism The retroactive ŽižeA