Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment write by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z. Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The world is sick, says the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 3 -> The world is sick, according to the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is sustained by the paradoxes of surplus-enjoyment, which sustain the topsy-turviness of our time.
Surplus-Enjoyment
Surplus-Enjoyment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surplus-Enjoyment write by Slavoj Žižek. This book was released on 2022-08-11. Surplus-Enjoyment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?
Less Than Nothing
Less Than Nothing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Less Than Nothing write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Less Than Nothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First As Tragedy, Then As Farce write by Slavoj Žižek. This book was released on 2009-10-05. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Like a Thief in Broad Daylight write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Like a Thief in Broad Daylight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The latest book from "the most despicable philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before--and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Žižek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.
