Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology by Slavoj

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Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.

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In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the most compelling evidence available for recognizing Jacques Lacan as the preemient philosopher of our time.In Tarrying with the Negative, Zizek challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle. Are we, Zizek asks, confined to a postmodern universe in which truth is reduced to the contingent effect of various discursive practices and where our subjectivity is dispersed through a multitude of ideological positions? No is his answer, and the way out is a return to philosophy. This revisit to German Idealism allows Zizek to recast the critique of ideology as a tool for disclosing the dynamic of our society, a crucial aspect of which is the debate over nationalism, particularly as it has developed in the Balkans-Zizek's home. He brings the debate over nationalism into the sphere of contemporary cultural politics, breaking the impasse centered on nationalisms simultaneously fascistic and anticolonial aspirations. Provocatively, Zizek argues that what drives nationalistic and ethnic antagonism is a collectively driven refusal of our own enjoyment.Using examples from popular culture and high theory to illuminate each other-opera, film noir, capitalist universalism, religious and ethnic fundamentalism-this work testifies to the fact that, far more radically than the postmodern sophists, Kant and Hegel are our contemporaries.

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Zizek challenges the contemporary critique of ideology and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict

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"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."-Fredric Jameson

Author Biography

Slavoj iek is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology and Enjoy Your Symptom!.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject 1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 92. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur 3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 834. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment 5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 1656. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200Notes 239Index 287

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'Slavoj Zizek, the giant of Ljubljana, ... provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus' --Scott Malcolmson, Voice Literary Supplement

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Zizek challenges the contemporary critique of ideology and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict

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"This new iek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."--Fredric Jameson

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Zizek challenges the contemporary critique of ideology and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict

Details ISBN0822313952 Author Slavoj Zizek Short Title TARRYING W/THE NEG - PB Pages 304 Series Post-Contemporary Interventions Language English ISBN-10 0822313952 ISBN-13 9780822313953 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1993 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Publisher Duke University Press Residence XV Affiliation University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Subtitle Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology DOI 10.1604/9780822313953 UK Release Date 1993-10-19 AU Release Date 1993-10-19 NZ Release Date 1993-10-19 US Release Date 1993-10-19 Publication Date 1993-10-19 DEWEY 140 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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