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Book SynopsisZizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy.
Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades."
Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford "The Zizek Reader is an excellent introduction to his thinking and contains the first systematic criticism of his work, in editorial introductions to each essay. In his own preface, Zizek makes his gambit explicit by his categorical rejection of the 'hegemonic trends' of today's academia." The Independent
Table of ContentsPreface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Culture.
1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment.
2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity.
3. The Spectre of Ideology.
4. Fantasy as a Political Category.
5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?.
Part II: Woman.
6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist'.
7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing.
8. There is No Sexual Relationship.
9. Death and the Maiden..
Part III: Philosophy.
10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology.
11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces.
12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You.
13. Kant with (or against) Sade.
14. Of Cells and Selves.
Slavoj Žižek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.
Index.
