The }}i}}ek Reader [Hardcover]

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'.

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• Collects work by one of the most arresting and scandalous thinkers of our time.
  
• Aids the reader to understand the often complex thinking of both Lacan and Zizek

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Preface: 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.

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