The Universal Exception

by Zizek, Slavoj; Butler, Rex; Stephens, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780826471093
• ISBN10: 0826471099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Universal Exception is the second volume of the collected key writings of Slavoj Ž iž ek--one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Collecting together a broad selection of Ž iž zek major writings on politics. The Universal Exception showcases Ž iž ek's formidable range of interests and his style. The book includes his writings on such rightwing icons as Ayn Rand and Leni Riefenstahl; his take on the logic of capitalism and the condition of contemporary radical politics; and his views on major current global issues and events, including the Iraq war. Together with Interrogating the Real, the first volume of Ž iž ek's selected writings, this collection offers a superb introduction to the work of this prolific, controversial, and vastly entertaining cultural commentator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Editors' introduction: Slavoj Zizek's 'third way'	p. 1
The absent 'second way'	p. 13
Eastern European liberalism and its discontents	p. 13
Why we all love to hate Haider	p. 33
Heiner Muller out of joint	p. 42
Really existing socialism	p. 63
Why are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst not Fascists?	p. 63
The fetish of the party	p. 67
Georg Lukacs as the philosopher of Leninism	p. 94
Prolegomena to a theory of Kolkhoz musicals	p. 124
Attempts to escape the logic of capitalism	p. 137
Really existing capitalism	p. 151
Multiculturalism, or, the cultural logic of multinational capitalism	p. 151
A leftist plea for 'Eurocentrism'	p. 183
A plea for 'passive aggressivity'	p. 209
The three faces of Bill Gates	p. 227
The prospects of radical politics today	p. 237
What is (not) to be done	p. 259
Against the double blackmail	p. 259
Welcome to the desert of the Real	p. 267
The Iraq War - where is the true danger?	p. 289
Author's afterword: Where do we stand today?	p. 304
Glossary	p. 327
Index	p. 354
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