Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences - Softcover

Zizek, Slavoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415969212 ISBN 13: 9780415969215

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

With all his ususal humor and invention, Zizek-- the acknowledged master of the 180 degree turn -- here takes a trip into enemy territory to deliver Deleuze of a marvelously rebellious child, one that seriously challenges Deleuze's other progeny with a surprising but convincing bid for succession. Those who thought Deleuze's forward march into the future would follow a straight path are forced to rethink their stance. From now on all readings of Deleuze will have to take a detour through this important -- even necessary -- book.

Synopsis:

The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and psychoanalysis. In this deliciously polemical work, Zizek shows Deleuze's connections to both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital capitalism'. With his brilliant energy and fearless argumentation, Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the one we thought we knew.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415969212
• ISBN 13: 9780415969215
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230