Description
Book SynopsisZizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European thinkers, especially Hegel.
Trade Review"Kay's introduction is a much more thorough and rigorous study, and her elucidation of the influence of German idealism on Zizek's thinking is by far the best of any of the introductions under consideration."
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Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1: Introduction: thinking, writing and reading about the real.
Chapter 2: Dialectic and the real: Lacan, Hegel, and the alchemy of après-coup.
Chapter 3: ‘Reality’ and the real: culture as anamorphosis:.
Chapter 4: The real of sexual difference: imagining, thinking, being.
Chapter 5: Ethics and the real: the ungodly virtues of psychoanalysis.
Chapter 6: Politics, or, the art of the impossible.
Glossary of Žižekian terms.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
