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Zizek and Communist Strategy: The Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism

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Description for Zizek and Communist Strategy: The Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism Hardcover. Communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Slavoj ae'iae'ek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative. Chris McMillan seeks to identify ae'iae'ek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476. On the Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism. 192 pages. Communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Slavoj ae'iae'ek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative. Chris McMillan seeks to identify ae'iae'ek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 17. Weight: 476.
ae'iae'ek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics - this is how ae'iae'ek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that ae'iae'ek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of ae'iae'ek's fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that ae'iae'ek's turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of ae'iae'ek's work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for ae'iae'ekian theory. While ae'iae'ek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative - communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Chris McMillan identifies ae'iae'ek's ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748646647
SKU
V9780748646647
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About Chris McMillan
Chris McMillan currently works at Brunel University in London, having been formerly based at Massey University in New Zealand. He has previously published in the International Journal of ae'iae'ek Studies, as well as acting as a guest editor.

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