Zizek is one of the very few thinkers who has been able to reinvent Lacan's fundamental concepts with a freshness and elasticity that makes one remember what was genuinely exciting and revolutionary about the Parisian school. His work is saturated with the lessons of philosophy and psychoanalysis and he has a feel for film and literary culture that is quite breathtaking. -- Andrew Ross, Princeton University Looking Awry is a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture, and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years. -- Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University
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.
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.
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