Introducing Slavoj Zizek

A Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want, Piero Pierini, Piero Piero

• Publisher: Icon Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781848317765
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosopher Biographies

Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly explains Zizek's virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies – Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis – into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment.

Index

advertising ref 1, ref 2

Afghanistan ref 1, ref 2

anamorphosis ref 1, ref 2

anti-capitalism ref 1, ref 2

Antigone ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Badiou, Alain ref 1

Beckett, Samuel ref 1, ref 2

big Other ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10

Bohr, Niels ref 1

Brecht, Bertolt ref 1

Buñuel, Luis ref 1, ref 2

Carmen ref 1

categorical imperative ref 1

charity ref 1, ref 2

Church ref 1, ref 2

“clash of civilizations” ref 1, ref 2

collective change ref 1

communism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

consumerism ref 1

Crucifixion ref 1

Darwin, Charles ref 1

deconstruction ref 1, ref 2

Derrida, Jacques ref 1, ref 2

Descartes, René ref 1, ref 2

desire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

dialogue, refusal of ref 1, ref 2

“divine dimension” ref 1, ref 2

Dolar, Mladen ref 1, ref 2

Don Giovanni ref 1, ref 2

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ref 1, ref 2

duty ref 1, ref 2

ecology ref 1, ref 2

Eichmann, Adolf ref 1

Einstein, Albert ref 1

enjoyment ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

exchange, system of ref 1, ref 2

experience ref 1

fictional subject ref 1, ref 2

French revolution ref 1, ref 2

Freud, Sigmund ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

God

as blasphemer ref 1

as computer programmer ref 1

death of ref 1, ref 2

failure of ref 1, ref 2

happiness ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Hegel, G.W.F. ref 1, ref 2

Heisenberg, Werner ref 1

Hitchcock, Alfred ref 1, ref 2

ideology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

and repression ref 1, ref 2

immoral ethics ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, r...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• The most dangerous philosopher…
• The oratorical approach
• Psychoanalysis, the suspect science
• The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis
• Political engagement
• The larger-than-life super brain
• The idea of truth
• Power relations
• Understanding ideology
• Defending psychoanalysis
• Against deconstruction
• Crude thinking
• Žižek the communist
• The historical struggle for the commons
• Collective change
• Repressive ideologies
• Ecology, the new opium of the people
• Liberal ecology
• Nature the destroyer
• Facing up to radical contingency
• An empty universe
• Žižek’s manifesto for the earth
• Poverty, the media, and “fair trade”
• Buying into anti-capitalism
• Redemption for the consumer
• The disease of charity
• McWorld versus Jihad
• The truth about the Taliban
• The paranoia of 9/11
• Ideology and repression
• The symbolic order
• The Trojan horse
• Meaning and the symbolic order
• The big Other
• The emperor’s new clothes
• Lack
• A universal system of exchange
• They do not know it…
• Freud and the super-ego
• Doing the right thing …
• … for the wrong reason
• In-built transgression
• The night of the world
• Hitchcock and the obscene
• Kafka and the obscenity of the law
• The Trial
• Modern or postmodern?
• Postmodernism and presence
• Perversity of the Church
• The Church never existed
• The Nazis’ dirty secret
• The contrast with Stalinism
• An excess of irrationality
• The death of God
• The myth of the permissive society
• Paternal authority figures
• Killing the father
• Enjoy!
• The ever-present object of desire
• Simulated enjoyment
• Be true to yourself
• The ideologies of advertising
• Doing “good”
• The removal of risk
• Confronting the fictional subject
• Losing reality
• Cogito ergo sum?
• From S to $
• The fiction of language
• Optical illusions
• Anamorphosis
• Buñuel and the desire for meaning
• Immoral ethics
• Desire above the law
• Refusal of dialogue
• Immoral ethics in Don Giovanni…
• … and Carmen
• Revolutionary ethics
• Terror as virtue
• A decision made in solitude
• Beyond good and evil
• Change at any cost
• Re-evaluating Stalin
• Violence and impotence
• No compromise with the big Other
• Duty and the categorical imperative
• There is no big Other
• The big Other and the Bible
• The trials of Job
• God the blasphemer
• The failure of God
• Quantum uncertainty
• Digital reality
• The freedom of an unfinished reality
• Further Reading
• Index