Conversations with Zizek

by ?i?ek, Slavoj; Daly, Glyn

• ISBN13: 9780745628974
• ISBN10: 0745628974
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

In this new book, Slavoj Ži žek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Ži žek 's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.Ži žek is a Slovenian philosopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace, film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Ži žek elaborates on a range of topics which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much more.This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Ži žeks humour and character, and is an ideal introduction to his work. At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural studies and politics.

Author Biography

Slavoj Zizek is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Ljubljana University, Slovenia.


Glyn Daly is at University College, Northampton.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Risking the Impossible	1	(23)
Opening the Space of Philosophy	23	(29)
The Madness of Reason: Encounters of the Real Kind	52	(28)
Subjects of Modernity: Virtuality and the Fragility of the Real	80	(30)
Tolerance and the Intolerable: Enjoyment, Ethics and Event	110	(29)
Miracles Do Happen: Globalization(s) and Politics	139	(28)
Bibliography	167	(2)
Index	169