Chris Mcmillan

Zizek and Communist Strategy (eBook, ePUB)

On the Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zizek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics: this is how Zizek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that Zizek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of Zizek's fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that Zizek's turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of Zizek's work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for Zizekian theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748655496
• Artikelnr.: 56904712

Autorenporträt

Chris McMillan currently works at Brunel University in London, having been formerly based at Massey University in New Zealand. He has previously published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies, as well as acting as a guest editor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Marxism after the Discursive Turn
3. Jouissance and Politics
4. Universality and the Trauma of the Real
5. Zizek's Capitalism: What Can Sexual Difference Tell Us about New Forms of Apartheid?
6. Zizek's Realpolitics
7. The Communist Hypothesis: Zizekian Utopia or Utopian Fantasy?
8. Conclusion
References
Index.