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Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008

Introduction by John Caputo and Afterword by Slavoj Zizek The triumph of American political conservatism in the last two decades has been paralleled by the ascendance of Christian evangelicalism. More importantly, the political Campaigns of 2000 and 2004 marked a convergence between these two political entities with an effectiveness never before seen in national elections. On the one side, conservatives have successfully set the terms of ...

In Defense of Lost Causes

1 review
Slavoj Zizek

Verso, 2008

New territory for the Big Z?
While I have yet to finish my recently purchased copy I can say that to some extent, much of this is the same ol' Zizek mentioning Hegel at the top of the page and moving on to "The Break Up" with Jennifer Aniston and whats-his-face at the bottom (hooray pop and highbrow culture mixing, how superficially 'postmodern', etc.). But of course that is part of the tongue that is in the cheek while ...

Gaze and Voice As Love Objects

1 review

Duke University Press, 1996

A fascinating collection of Lacanian commentary
Ever since Jacques Lacan entered the intellectual ring in the 1950s he has been a focal point of discussion and stimulation. His elusive, intriguing, often profound writings have generated wave upon wave of commentary and inspiration. Slavoj Zizek is one of the most lucid (and certainly entertaining) explicators of Lacan. He and Renata Salecl have edited a superb collection of essays by some ...

Conversations with Zizek (Conversations)

3 reviews
Slavoj Zizek, Glyn Daly

Polity, 2004

Most coherent text on Lacan and/or Zizek ever
Previous to reading this book I had read quite a few of Zizek's books, as well as some other secondary material on Lacan, and always seemed to miss the mark on some key conceptual understandings. They were always too technical, above my head, or hard to understand. In this book, by contrast, and probably in part because it's in an interview format, Zizek does an incredible job of succinctly ...

Theology and the Political: The New Debate sic v ([sic] Series)

1 review

Duke University Press, 2005

Fantastic Collection
This is a solid contribution to the burgeoning intersection of the religious and the secular (post-Marxist) especially as it relates to the reemergence of political theology (after communism) and the reexamination of St. Paul in continental theory (Agamben, Badiou, Taubes, Zizek, Graham Ward et al). This volume does not ring as a manifesto--there is not enough agreement among the essays to forge ...

Lacanian Ink 30 - Objet a
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2007

Is objet a, insofar as it lacks its mirror image, the vampiric object (vampires, as we know, do not generate their image in a mirror)? It may seem so: are vampires not versions of undead partial objects? However, perhaps, the exact opposite is more appropriate as an image of objet a: when we look at a thing directly, in reality, we don t see it - this it only appears when we look at the thing s mirror image, as if there is, in the mirror ...

Lacanian Ink 29 - Otherness
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou - Josefina Ayerza - Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2007

The paradoxical figure of the individual who stands for the big Other. One should not think primarily of the leader-figures who directly embody/personify their community (king, president, master), but, rather, of the more mysterious figures of protectors of appearances. Today, it seems that appearances no longer have to be protected. We all know the innocent child from Andersen's "The Emperors New Clothes" who publicly proclaims the fact that ...

In Search of Wagner

2 reviews
Theodor Adorno

Verso, 2005

great probing analysis into the last Romantic
Adorno wrote this as a response to the growing inflated enthusiasm of Wagner's Operas during the War Years,with the darkest pages of Europa.It was inevitable the Third Reich was to seize upon these works primarily the more facile operas as 'Die Meistersinger','Lohengrin', and leave the more controversial RING to languish for history to ponder. Adorno always had a nerve-ending unbalanced by ...

Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics)

4 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Routledge, 2007

very clear stuff
If you know anything about Hegel and Lacan, Zizek is actually a quite clear expositor of Lacan. Looking awry is particularly clear, lucid to the point of simplification in his account of Lacan, but what can you expect when your proof-test is Hitchcock and HOllywood movies. Most academic books consist of (dead author) and (contemporary theorist), and if the text at hand simply serves to ...

Lacanian Ink 31 - Sacrosanct Depression
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2008

In our Politically Correct times, it is fashionable to discern homosexuality in the musical texture of some classic composers and thus redeem them - there are, for example, totally unconvincing and ridiculous readings of Schubert: he must have been gay, because his music is non-aggressive/penetrative/phallic, full of soft passages... In the case of Eugene Onegin, however, we stand on a much more firm ground. In the Fall of 1876 Tchaikovsky ...

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

4 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Verso, 2002

a great book
~~~I truly enjoyed this book, which provides great insight while analyzing the current situation of the States. Not "with us or against us," as Bush constantly stated,but we are against them, since both military leaders in the US and Bin Laden's terrorists are following the same logic. What happend in September 11 had happened in third world countries everywhere, but we Americans watched them as ...

The Parallax View (Short Circuits)

9 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

The MIT Press, 2006

Very insightful
It's a synthesis in Zizek's trajectory, but also it opens his work toward new discussions

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books)

5 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

The MIT Press, 1992

This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns
Jacques Lacan's theories are completely, utterly undecipherable. The only way to begin to understand the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory is to read somebody else writing on Lacan. And thank God Zizek does that for us. To understand Lacan, I've always had to turn to film theory critism--Laura Mulvey--but none of that ever goes beyond theories of the gaze, neglecting to dispell the mystery ...

The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis)

8 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Verso, 1989

groundbreaking
Zizek brilliantly combines Lacan and Althusser in his reading of Marx and ideology. Unlike other pompous incomprehensible readings of complicated theorists e.g. Lacan and Althusser, Zizek offers a sharp, shrewd, and most important, a comprehensible text to his readers. This book is probably the best introduction to the Zizek phenomenon. It is very theoritical, but it also introduces Zizek's ...

How to Read Lacan (How to Read)

2 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

W. W. Norton, 2007

meat lake
Zizek admits in the introduction that he brings both arguments and material from his other published works to this How to Read manual. As a result, readers of Zizek will recognize the echoes of some jokes, lists and paragraphs. The limit of Zizek's sustained argumentation reaches about three pages. Each of the seven chapters will have a title, three or four pages will directly address that ...

The Universal Exception: Selected Writings
Slavoj Zizek

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
Slavoj Zizek

Picador, 2008

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the ...

The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

4 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Verso, 2000

This book might be a really big deal...
Slovenian author Slavoj Zizek has been rearing his head for awhile, but this might be his big break-through. In "The Ticklish Subject", he is actually outlining an argument for the return of the Cartesian subject, the universal subject, whose presence he claims is "a spectre haunting Western academia...". He argues that the rejection of this cogito is what unites an astounding array of ...

Interrogating the Real

3 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006

High theory's prankster at his best
I still have a few essays left in this little gem, but I would already highly recommend it because I have never had a better experience understanding Zizek. First off, if you simply wish to gain a straight forward understanding of some of the possible theoretically usages of Lacan, Hegel, Kant, Foucault, Heidegger and a host of other heavy hitters then Zizek is your man. He loves a tangent, ...

Lacanian Ink 27 - The Names-of-the-Father
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou

The Wooster Press, 2006

When, in his "Rapport de Rome", Lacan refers to Hegel’s “Absolute Knowing,” one should read closely his indications of how he conceives this identification of the analyst with the Hegelian master, and not succumb to the temptation of quickly retranslating the “Absolute Knowing” into the accomplished symbolization. For Lacan, the analyst stands for the Hegelian master, embodiment of “Absolute Knowing,” insofar as he renounces all enforcing ...

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