On Zizek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation: 43 (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Vighi, Fabio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441160485 ISBN 13: 9781441160485

Publisher: Continuum, 2012

Synopsis

On ++i++ek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj ++i++ek by investigating its epistemological implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. The book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value. If the originality of ++i++ek's wager lies in the claim that enjoyment secretly sustains our ideological space, can we think of surplus-jouissance in a way that not only unmasks the ruse of capitalism but also adumbrates the construction of an alternative social space? The answer to this question is developed in the second part of the book. Arguing that the transformative potential of Zizek's epistemology needs to be fully unravelled if it is to avoid the risk of congealing into mere academic exercise, Fabio Vighi attempts to politicise ++i++ek's groundbreaking critical method by calling upon the necessity to translate its emphasis on the 'indigestible' surplus of knowledge into the drive to think the new. Under the current conditions, this creative moment can no longer be delayed.

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About the Author

Fabio Vighi is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of <span style=font-style: italic;">Žižek: Beyond Foucault </span>(2007, with Heiko Feldner), Sexual Difference in European <span style="font-style: italic;">Cinema </span>(2008), and <span style="font-style: italic;">On Žižek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation </span>(2010).<br />"

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441160485
• ISBN 13: 9781441160485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196