Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Zizek's most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement with politics, Zizek here brings us startlingly new perspectives on such topics as multiculturalism, capitalism and Bill Gates, the revolutionary potential of Stalinism, the terrorist attacks of 9/11…mehr
Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Zizek's most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement with politics, Zizek here brings us startlingly new perspectives on such topics as multiculturalism, capitalism and Bill Gates, the revolutionary potential of Stalinism, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.Including a glossary of key terms, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author.
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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AcknowledgementsPreface to the Paperback EditionEditors' Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's 'Third Way'Section I: The Absent 'Second Way'1. Eastern European Liberalism and Its Discontents2. Why We All Love to Hate Haider3. Heiner Muller Out of JointSection II: Really Existing Socialism4. Why Are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst Not Fascists?5. The Fetish of the Party6. Georg Lukacs as the Philosopher of Leninism7. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kolkhoz Musicals8. Attempts to Escape the Logic of CapitalismSection III: Really Existing Capitalism9. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism10. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'11. A Plea for 'Passive Aggressivity'12. The Three Faces of Bill Gates13. The Prospects of Radical Politics TodaySection IV: What Is (Not) To Be Done?14. Against the Double Blackmail15. Welcome to the Desert of the Real16. The Iraq War - Where is the True Danger?17. Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France and Related MattersAuthor's Afterword: Where Do We Stand Today?GlossaryIndex
AcknowledgementsPreface to the Paperback EditionEditors' Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's 'Third Way'Section I: The Absent 'Second Way'1. Eastern European Liberalism and Its Discontents2. Why We All Love to Hate Haider3. Heiner Muller Out of JointSection II: Really Existing Socialism4. Why Are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst Not Fascists?5. The Fetish of the Party6. Georg Lukacs as the Philosopher of Leninism7. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kolkhoz Musicals8. Attempts to Escape the Logic of CapitalismSection III: Really Existing Capitalism9. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism10. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'11. A Plea for 'Passive Aggressivity'12. The Three Faces of Bill Gates13. The Prospects of Radical Politics TodaySection IV: What Is (Not) To Be Done?14. Against the Double Blackmail15. Welcome to the Desert of the Real16. The Iraq War - Where is the True Danger?17. Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France and Related MattersAuthor's Afterword: Where Do We Stand Today?GlossaryIndex
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