{"product_id":"the-zizek-reader-9780631212003","title":"The Zizek Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZizek'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Zizek Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Spectre of Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Fantasy as a Political Category.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Woman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. There is No Sexual Relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Death and the Maiden.\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Kant with (or against) Sade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Of Cells and Selves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavoj Žižek: Bibliography of Worlds in English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515457364311,"sku":"9780631212003","price":98.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-zizek-reader-9780631212003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}