Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology

A Reader’s Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvRafael Winkler,South Africa) Winkler, Rafael (University of Johannesburg

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First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek’s breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that introduced the English-speaking world to Žižek’s scorching brand of cultural and philosophical commentary and the multifaceted ways in which he explained it. Tying together concepts from aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies and the philosophy of belief, it changed the face of contemporary commentary and remains the underpinning of much of his subsequent thinking.This compelling guide introduces all of the influential thinkers and foundational concepts which Žižek draws on to create this seminal work. Grounding the text’s many and varied references in the work of Peter Sloterdijk, Saul Kripke, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, amongst others, helps students who are encountering this mercurial writer for the first time to understand the philosophical context of his early explorations. Each of Žižek’s key arguments are unpacked and laid out, alongside an invaluable account of how The Sublime Object of Ideology impacted the critical terrain on which it landed.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-27
Mått155 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt277 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReader's Guides
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350425651

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart I: ContextThe Habermas-Foucault debate, and AlthusserLaclau and Mouffe; Antagonism and the Real of the DrivePart II: Overview of Themes Part III: Reading of the text1.1 What is Money?1.2 Exchange; Alfred Sohn-Rethel1.3 Cynical consciousness; Peter Sloterdijk1.4 Belief and Ideology1.5 Althusser; Interpellation and Misrecognition1.6 Kant and the Law1.7 DisidentificationSection 22.1 Retroactivity (Nachträglichkeit)2.2 Error as the Way to the Truth2.3 Desire and Lack2.4 Trauma redux2.5 The Form of IdeologySection 33.1 (a) The Constitution of Sublime Objects3.2 The Quilting Point; Laclau and Mouffe’s Hegemonic Logic3.3 Descriptivism vs. Anti-descriptivism3.4 The Essence or ‘je ne sais quoi’ of the Object3.5 (b) The Constitution of the Subject and Enjoyment (Jouissance)3.6 Imaginary and Symbolic Identification3.7 ‘Che vuoi?’3.8 Fantasy3.9 The Real4.0 Ideology RevisitedSection 44.1 Symbolic and Physical Existence; Symbolic and Physical Death4.2 Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’4.3 Power and its RepresentationSection 55.1 ‘There is No Metalanguage’; Derrida and Dissemination5.2 Lacan and ‘Lenin in Warsaw’5.3 The Real Revisited5.4 Freedom and the Forced Choice; the Real5.5 Lack, the Subject, and the Ontological Inconsistency of the Big Other5.6 The Ideological Function of objet a5.7 The Subject Presumed to …Section 66.1 The Indefinite Judgment, Lack, and Negation6.2 Beauty and the Sublime; the Pleasure Principle and its Beyond6.3 From Kant to Hegel; Lack and Negativity6.4 ‘Spirit is a Bone’6.5 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and the Heroism of Flattery6.6 The ‘Beautiful Soul’ and Positing the PresuppositionsPart IV: Reception and influence