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On Zizek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

Autor Dr Fabio Vighi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2012
On Zizek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizek'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 Zizek'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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441160485
ISBN-10: 1441160485
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines the way in which Zizek foregrounds Jacques Lacan's notion of enjoyment as the central category for both ideology critique and emancipatory political thought.

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

Introduction

Part I: The enjoyment of capitalism: surplus-jouissance and work

1. The will to enjoyment
2. Jouissance at arm's length
3. From surplus-value to surplus-jouissance
4. The unbearable lightness of being the proletariat
5. Shame, subversion, and manual labour
6. Karatani's wager
 
Excursus 1: Georges Bataille's potlach and the splendour of rags

Excursus 2: Silvio Berlusconi's enjoyment and related obscenities

Part II: The surplus of thought: epistemology and dialectics

7. From subject to a political subject
8. Democracy under duress
9. Dialectical materialism as parallax
10. The vicissitudes of subtraction
11. The invisible rabbit inside the hat
12. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in it'

Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"In the guise of providing a commentary on the political implications of Slavoj Zizek's philosophy, Vighi has made clear the precise contours of the link between theory and practice in an utterly original fashion. His book marks a major milestone in the history of thinking about politics." - Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USA, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan
"After completing Vighi's book on me, I felt a unique mixture of pleasure and anxiety, as if a double is haunting me, understanding me better than I understand myself, and noticing not only what I try to achieve, but also the weak spots in my theoretical edifice. Not to mention the fact that Vighi's book also stands on its own as a supreme example of a dialectical theory of ideology. Anyone who wants to understand how ideology functions in today's "post-ideological" era should follow closely Vighi's work!" - Slavoj Zizek
"This is a wonderful book not only on Zizek and his dialectics, but also about what the latter can inspire in terms of a further and most stunning reflection upon real, and really interesting, encounters between psychoanalysis and Marxism as generic name for emancipatory politics." - Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia
... accessible and enjoyable.