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Description for Zizek
Paperback. This book provides a unique and timely approach to Foucauldian analytics via the work of Slavoj Zizek, thereby revitalizing Foucault's discourse analysis and his pertinence to contemporary debates within continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF3; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book brings together two of the most influential thinkers in critical theory. By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is 'to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Žižek) and to change it.
This book brings together two of the most influential thinkers in critical theory. By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is 'to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Žižek) and to change it.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349279937
SKU
V9781349279937
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About Vighi, F; Feldner, H
Fabio Vighi is Lecturer in Italian Studies at Cardiff University, author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001) and Traumatic Encounters (2006), and co-editor of Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007). Heiko Feldner is Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, author of Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung (1999) and ... Read more
Reviews for Zizek
'Staging a confrontation between perhaps the most influential figures in poststructuralism and psychoanalysis, Vighi and Feldner establish their fundamental sites of overland and opposition as well as the stakes involved in a choice for one rather than the other. Adherents of Foucault can thus no longer avoid the critical challenge of i ek's thought to their basic notions of archeology, ... Read more