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Did Somebody Say Ideology?: On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences
Editor: Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner
Date Of Publication: Aug 2007
Isbn13: 9781847182357
Isbn: 1-84718-235-6
Did Somebody Say Ideology? explores the philosophical, political, and psychoanalytic foundations of Slavoj Žižek’s work, almost two decades after his arrival on the international scene of contemporary philosophy with The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989). The book generally focuses on the understanding and applicability of Žižek’s theory of ideology, arguably the distinguishing and most original feature in his oeuvre so far. The first part contains six essays that carry out specific investigations into key aspects of the Slovenian philosopher’s work; the second part practices Žižek’s own injunction about Lacan (“discover Lacanian themes everywhere!”) on Žižek himself, employing his theories in different contexts and relating them to other thinkers. Each study in the present volume testifies to the extraordinary vitality of Žižek’s writing, demonstrating how his psychoanalytic brand of ideology critique fosters innovative research in a variety of intellectual fields and academic disciplines.
Fabio Vighi is Lecturer in Italian Studies at Cardiff University, author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2006) and Žižek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner).
Heiko Feldner is Lecturer in German Studies at Cardiff University, author of Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung (1999), Žižek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Fabio Vighi), and co-editor of Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003).
The book has a great deal to offer to undergraduate and postgraduates students of Žižek’s extremely impressive oeuvre. But it will also be of great use to academics and everybody else interested in philosophy, cinema, feminism, psychoanalysis, radical politics and nationalism in the Balkans. The detailed exposition of Žižek is masterfully complemented by detailed discussions of Badiou, Bataille, Deleuze, Foucault and Lacan. Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences is likely to be one of the most important books on Žižek in recent years and an original contribution to contemporary social theory.
Darrow Schecter University of Sussex
Price Uk Gbp: 39.99
Price Us Usd: 59.99
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