The Truth of Žižek
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The Truth of Žižek

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The Truth of Žižek

About this book

Slavoj Žižek is widely regarded as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers. His work has contributed dramatically to the reinvention and revivification of many key theoretical and political debates. Indeed, his vociferous and challenging body of work amounts to a sustained, ground-breaking, terrain-shifting and far reaching intervention into a large number of academic disciplines, intellectual fields and cultural debates. The Truth of Žižek addresses the rigorous critical assessment demanded by this broad and increasingly influential corpus. This timely and compelling collection of essays from an international team of leading Žižekian scholars addresses the full range of Žižek's theoretical interventions, assessing critically the political, philosophical, psychoanalytical, cultural and institutional stakes of his work. Each chapter engages with and challenges Žižek's thought to explicate a key aspect of his work, clarifying its importance and challenging its claims through rigorous critique. By focusing on Žižek's contributions to these disciplines, fields and debates, this collection sets out to diagnose and assess the emergence of a ' Žižekian moment' within contemporary intellectual, cultural and political events. The Truth of Žižek provides the first sustained engagement with and assessment of the significant impact of Žižek's work. This compelling and valuable collection of essays from cutting edge scholars picks up the gauntlet thrown down by Žižek: the demand that his readers respond with 'the coldness and cruelty of true friendship.'

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780826490612
eBook ISBN
9781441119636
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Simon Critchley: Foreword: Why Žižek Must Be Defended
  8. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp: Editors' Introduction: Is This not Precisely. . . The Truth of Žižek?
  9. Leigh Claire La Berge: The Writing Cure: Slavoj Žižek, Analysand of Modernity
  10. Paul Bowman: The Tao of Žižek
  11. Mark Devenney: Žižek's Passion for the Real: The Real of Terror, The Terror of the Real
  12. Jeremy Gilbert: All the Right Questions, All the Wrong Answers
  13. Iain Hamilton Grant: The Insufficiency of Ground: On Žižek's Schellingianism
  14. Oliver Marchart: Acting and the Act: On Slavoj Žižek's Political Ontology
  15. John Mowitt: Trauma Envy
  16. Ian Parker: The Truth about Over-identification
  17. Richard Stamp: Another Exemplary Case': Žižek's Logic of Examples
  18. Jeremy Valentine: Denial, Anger and Resentment
  19. Slavoj Žižek: Afterword: With Defenders Like These, Who Needs Attackers?
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index