Rafael Winkler

Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Zizek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that introduced the English-speaking world to Zizek's scorching brand of cultural and philosophical commentary and the multifaceted ways in which he explained it. Tying together concepts from aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of belief, it changed the face of contemporary commentary and remains the underpinning of much of his subsequent thinking.

This compelling guide introduces all of the influential thinkers and foundational concepts which Zizek draws on to create this seminal work. Grounding the text's many and varied references in the work of Peter Sloterdijk, Saul Kripke, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, amongst others, helps students who are encountering this mercurial writer for the first time to understand the philosophical context of his early explorations. Each of Zizek's key arguments are unpacked and laid out, alongside an invaluable account of how The Sublime Object of Ideology impacted the critical terrain on which it landed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350425675
• Artikelnr.: 70717515

Autorenporträt

Rafael Winkler is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Context The Habermas-Foucault debate,
and Althusser Laclau and Mouffe; Antagonism and the Real of the Drive Part
II: Overview of Themes Part III: Reading of the text 1.1 What is Money? 1.2
Exchange; Alfred Sohn-Rethel 1.3 Cynical consciousness; Peter Sloterdijk
1.4 Belief and Ideology 1.5 Althusser; Interpellation and Misrecognition
1.6 Kant and the Law 1.7 Disidentification Section 2 2.1 Retroactivity (
Nachträglichkeit) 2.2 Error as the Way to the Truth 2.3 Desire and Lack 2.4
Trauma redux 2.5 The Form of Ideology Section 3 3.1 (a) The Constitution of
Sublime Objects 3.2 The Quilting Point; Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemonic Logic
3.3 Descriptivism vs. Anti-descriptivism 3.4 The Essence or 'je ne sais
quoi' of the Object 3.5 (b) The Constitution of the Subject and Enjoyment (
Jouissance) 3.6 Imaginary and Symbolic Identification 3.7 'Che vuoi?' 3.8
Fantasy 3.9 The Real 4.0 Ideology Revisited Section 4 4.1 Symbolic and
Physical Existence; Symbolic and Physical Death 4.2 Benjamin's 'Theses on
the Philosophy of History' 4.3 Power and its Representation Section 5 5.1
'There is No Metalanguage'; Derrida and Dissemination 5.2 Lacan and 'Lenin
in Warsaw' 5.3 The Real Revisited 5.4 Freedom and the Forced Choice; the
Real 5.5 Lack, the Subject, and the Ontological Inconsistency of the Big
Other 5.6 The Ideological Function of objet a 5.7 The Subject Presumed to .
Section 6 6.1 The Indefinite Judgment, Lack, and Negation 6.2 Beauty and
the Sublime; the Pleasure Principle and its Beyond 6.3 From Kant to Hegel;
Lack and Negativity 6.4 'Spirit is a Bone' 6.5 Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit and the Heroism of Flattery 6.6 The 'Beautiful Soul' and Positing
the Presuppositions Part IV: Reception and influence