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Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859843263
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Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844673025
One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the ‘sacred’ in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Žižek’s The Fragile Absolute – published here with a new preface by the author – is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781683774
Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789604337
One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute - published here with a new preface by the author - is that Christianity and Marxism can fight together against the contemporary onslought of vapid spiritualism. The revolutionary core of the Christian legacy is too precious to be left to the fundamentalists.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1844673278
The essential texts for understanding Zizek’s thought.
Author : Sotiris Mitralexis,Dionysios Skliris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351593472
Slavoj Žižek’s critical engagement with Christian theology goes much further than his seminal The Fragile Absolute (2000), or his The Puppet and the Dwarf (2003), or even his discussion with noted theologian John Milbank in The Monstrosity of Christ (2009). His reading of Christianity, utilising his signature elements of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy with modern philosophical currents, can be seen as a genuinely original contribution to the philosophy of religion. This book focuses on these aspects of Žižek’s thought with either philosophy and cultural theory, or Christian theology, serving as starting points of enquiry. Written by a panel of international contributors, each chapter teases out various strands of Žižek’s thought concerning Christianity and religion and brings them into a wider conversation about the nature of faith. These essays show that far from being an outright rejection of Christian thought and intellectual heritage, Žižek’s work could be seen as a perverse affirmation thereof. Thus, what he has to say should be of direct interest to Christian theology itself. Touching on thinkers such as Badiou, Lacan, Chesterton and Schelling, this collection is a dynamic reading and re-reading of Žižek’s relationship to Christianity. As such, scholars of theology, the philosophy of religion and Žižek more generally will all find this book to be of great interest.
Author : Slavoj Zizek,Boris Gunjevic
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781609803698
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity--and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem. Chapters include (by Zizek) (1) "Christianity Against Sacred," (2) "Glance into the Archives of Islam," (3) "Only Suffering God Can Save Us," (4) "Animal Gaze," (5) "For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical," (by Gunjevic) (1) "Mistagogy of Revolution," (2) "Virtues of Empire," (3) "Every Book Is Like Fortress," (4) "Radical Orthodoxy," (5) "Prayer and Wake."
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134522729
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true.
Author : Slavoj Zizek,Mladen Dolar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135207786
Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.
Author : Alex Taek-Gwang Lee,Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784783969
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as well as work from across Asia, notably from Chinese scholar Wang Hui, offering regional perspectives on communism in an era of global economic crisis and political upheaval.
Author : Todd May
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226440019
“His discussion of the ways in which those who try to make themselves invulnerable . . . undermine what makes us most human, is clear and bracing.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In a moving examination of life and the trials that beset it, Todd May shows that our fragility, our ability to suffer, is actually one of the most important aspects of our humanity. May starts with a simple but hard truth: suffering is inevitable. At the most basic level, we suffer physically—a sprained ankle or a bad back. But we also suffer insults and indifference. We suffer from overburdened schedules and unforeseen circumstances, from moral dilemmas and emotional heartaches. Even just thinking about our own mortality—the fact that we only live one life—can lead us to tremendous suffering. No wonder philosophies such as Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism—all of which counsel us to rise above these plights—have had appeal over the centuries. May highlights the tremendous value of these philosophies and the ways they can guide us toward better lives, but he also exposes a major drawback to their tenets: such invulnerability is too emotionally disengaged from the world, leading us to place too great a distance between ourselves and our experience. Rather than seeking absolute immunity, he argues most of us just want to hurt less and learn how to embrace and accept what suffering we do endure in a meaningful way. Offering a guide on how to positively engage suffering, May ultimately lays out a new way of thinking about how we exist in the world.
Author : Marcus Pound
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802860019
Afterword by Slajov Zizek It has been the brilliance of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek (b. 1949) to uniquely weave theology, psychoanalysis, and politics together into stunning commentary on contemporary culture. Assuming little prior knowledge of this controversial (atheist, communist) philosopher, Marcus Pound provides the first comprehensive, systematic account of Zizek's work as it relates specifically to theology and religious studies.
Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859842917
With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Sean Kissane,Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000067803781
Foreword by Enrique Juncosa. Text by Sean Kissane, Dusan I. Bjelic, Medb Ruane, Tony White.
Author : Adam Kotsko
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567032454
Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek has been called an 'academic rock star'. This text assists students in getting to grips with Žižek's earlier and more recent works, with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity.
