Routledge Critical Thinkers Slavoj Zizek

作者：Tony Myers

出版社: Routledge ; 1 (2003年06月05日)

平裝: 160頁

語種：英文

ISBN: 0415262658

條形碼: 9780415262651

商品尺寸: 128 x 196 x 12mm

商品重量: 181.44g

ASIN: 0415262658

內容簡介

Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a 

recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating 

range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks 

he's a chicken, from the ethicial heroism of Keanu Reeves in Speed, to what toilet designs reveal 

about the national psyche. Tony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas, 

explaining the main influences on Zizek's thought (most crucially his engagement with Lacanian 

psychoanalysis) using examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life. Myers outlines the key 

issues that Zizek's work has tackled, including:

What is a Subject and why is it so important?

The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real

What is so terrible about Postmodernity?

How can we distinguish reality from ideology?

What is the relationship between men and women?

Why is Racism always a fantasy?

Slavoj Zizek is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the thought of the critic whom 

Terry Eagleton has described as "the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of 

cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades.