For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

Zizek, Slavoj

ISBN 10: 0860915638 / ISBN 13: 9780860915638

Edité par Verso, London/New York, 1991

Fine - Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting, a bit yellow on the pages. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1778507857389

Synopsis :

With the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis.
For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of "popular culture" makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.

À propos de l'auteur: Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as...
Éditeur : Verso, London/New York
Date d'édition : 1991
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Très bon
Edition : Edition originale