Looking Awry
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
$72.00
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
9 August 1992
Summary
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock’s Vertigo to Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, from McCullough’s An Indec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262740159 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026274015X |
| Author: | Slavoj Žižek |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 1992 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Looking Awry |
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Žižek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock’s The Birds, drawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, be plays the philosopher as standup comic…The elusive Lacan, who cultivated an aura of indecipherability with the care of a diva becomes a field guide to life in an age of media.
– Edward Ball * Voice Literary Supplement *About The Author
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry- An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf- The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, The Monstrosity of Christ- Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Zizek’s Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.
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