Name: The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel With Lacan
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Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 9780745663753

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The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel With Lacan

Type

Physical Book

Author

Slavoj Zizek

Publisher

Polity

Topic

Polity Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0745663753

ISBN13

9780745663753

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Synopsis "The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel With Lacan "

What Do We Know About Hegel? What Do We Know About Marx? What Do We Know About Democracy And Totalitarianism? Communism And Psychoanalysis? What Do We Know That Isn`T A Platitude That We`Ve Heard A Thousand Times - Or A Self - Satisfied Certainty? Through His Brilliant Reading Of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - One Of The Most Provocative And Widely - Read Thinkers Of Our Time - Upends Our Traditional Understanding, Dynamites Every Cliché And Undermines Every Conviction In Order To Clear The Ground For New Ways Of Answering These Questions. When Lacan Described Hegel As The Most Sublime Hysteric, He Was Referring To The Way That The Hysteric Asks Questions Because He Experiences His Own Desire As If It Were The Other`S Desire. In The Dialectical Process, The Question Asked Of The Other Is Resolved Through A Reflexive Turn In Which The Question Begins To Function As Its Own Answer. We Had Made Hegel Into The Theorist Of Abstraction And Reaction, But By Reading Hegel With Lacan, Zizek Unveils A Hegel Of The Concrete And Of Revolution - His Own, And The One To Come. This Early And Dazzlingly Original Work By Zizek Offers A Unique Insight Into The Ideas Which Have Since Become Hallmarks Of His Mature Thought. It Will Be Of Great Interest To Anyone Interested In Critical Theory, Philosophy And Contemporary Social Thought

Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He teaches continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first text in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he moved away from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that heavily relied on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism.

In 2012, Foreign Policy included Žižek in its list of the top 100 global thinkers, calling him a "philosophical celebrity." Žižek's work was featured in a 2005 documentary titled Zizek!. An academic journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to understand his work.

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