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Book Synopsis'Simply the best critical introduction to Zizek.' Yannis Stavrakakis, author of 'Lacan and the Political'
Trade Review'When I read Ian Parker's manuscript, I experienced an underlying solidarity: despite obvious differences, we share the same basic political concerns and visions. And this makes his critical remarks always pertinent!' -- Slavoj Zizek
'This is not simply the best critical introduction to Zizek – in a much more radical sense, this is the only critical introduction to Zizek' -- Yannis Stavrakakis, author of Lacan and the Political
'A sharp, clear and radical analysis of Zizek's works which is sustained by an acute combination of a close reading of Zizek as a Lacanian and an examination of his cultural context' -- Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker, Professor of Psychoanalytic Theory and Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: something retroactive and some anticipation
Zizek’s sublime objects
Mapping this book
Some indivisible reminders
1. Yugoslavia – to Slovenia
The perfection of the state
Brotherhood and unity
The Slovene springs
2. Enlightenment – with Hegel
The thing with Hegel
Revolutionary fracture
Redemptive closure
3. Psychoanalysis – from Lacan
The disappearing subject
The object of analysis
Clinic of the world
4. Politics – repeating Marx
Against the rules of the game
Community and enmity
Did somebody say Marxism?
5. Culture – acting out
Zizek’s just desserts
Asymmetry: machine, object, application
The wrong man
Notes and references
Bibliography
Index
