Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed - 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 Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed write by Sean Sheehan. This book was released on 2012-01-19. Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that fill Žižek's writings, the book explores his influences, including Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on 'Reading Žižek' guides the reader through the ways that he applies these core theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the Negative, The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his books about popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your Symptom! Major secondary writings and films featuring Žižek are also covered.
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?
ZŒizŒek
ZŒizŒek - 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 ZŒizŒek write by Sean Sheehan. This book was released on 2012. ZŒizŒek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED
GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED - 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 GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED write by E. F. Schumacher. This book was released on 1978-05-31. GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker--in this instance, Schumacher--is to find for everything it's proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and there proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead. A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.
