Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World
1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology
2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And
Philosophy
3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our Oppression
Finale: Subjective Destitution As A Political Category
Bibliography
Index
A compelling guide to Lacan's idea of 'Surplus enjoyment' through philosophy, pop culture, history and more.
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
[Žižek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of
things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world
dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms
that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages
on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker … Žižek is at heart
really a close reader and a seriously inventive one.
*The Spectator*
Surplus-Enjoyment is the author at his most supple, addressing
urgent current concerns and the need for a global solidarity that
cannot be divorced from egalitarianism. ... Zizek is a pick-me-up
for fatigued brains, a true radical and an authentic left-wing
conservative who wants to prevent the social disintegration that
threatens our civic life.
*The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper*
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