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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262512688
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9780262512688
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Book Title
Parallax View
Number of Pages
444 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
General, Criticism
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Philosophy
Book Series
Short Circuits Ser.
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"Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what }i~ekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates }i~ek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." In These Times, "Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor withcompulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of histheoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whoseevery loop is a Mbius strip." Publishers Weekly, Zizek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it....Zizek is that rare breed of writer--one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style., In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Zizek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone....Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative.-- The Guardian -- A remarkable demonstration of continental philosophical and psychoanalytical pyrotechnics. More provocative ideas per page than normally found in whole books by the dull anglophone empiricists who find him so threatening. -- Paul A. Taylor , Times Higher Education -- Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Zizek needs right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward. -- In These Times -- No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj Zizek. -- Tikkun -- Zizek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it....Zizek is that rare breed of writer--one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style. -- Terry Eagleton , Artforum -- Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip. -- Publishers Weekly --, "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj _i_ek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... _i_ek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." The Guardian, "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a M bius strip." Publishers Weekly, "A remarkable demonstration of continental philosophical and psychoanalyticalpyrotechnics. More provocative ideas per page than normally found in whole books by the dullanglophone empiricists who find him so threatening." Paul A. Taylor Times Higher Education, "_i_ek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it.... _i_ek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj }i~ek." Tikkun, "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Žižek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." The Guardian, "}i~ek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it.... }i~ek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, "Žižek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it.... Žižek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, Žižek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it....Žižek is that rare breed of writer -- one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style., "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Zizek needs right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." In These Times, "Žižek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it.... Žižek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, A remarkable demonstration of continental philosophical and psychoanalytical pyrotechnics. More provocative ideas per page than normally found in whole books by the dull anglophone empiricists who find him so threatening., "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Zizek needs right now.... TheParallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." InThese Times, "A remarkable demonstration of continental philosophical and psychoanalytical pyrotechnics. More provocative ideas per page than normally found in whole books by the dull anglophone empiricists who find him so threatening." Paul A. Taylor Times Higher Education, "Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip., "Zizek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerableitch to deface it.... Zizek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucidand esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas,not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, "Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "}i~ek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a M bius strip." Publishers Weekly, Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Mbius strip., "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsivereadability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoreticalframework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is aMöbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "Žižek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerableitch to deface it.... Žižek is that rare breed of writer-one who is both lucidand esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas,not because of a self-preening style." Terry Eagleton Artforum, "Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor withcompulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of histheoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whoseevery loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsivereadability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoreticalframework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is aMbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj }i~ek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... }i~ek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." The Guardian, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better thanSlavoj Zizek." Tikkun, "_i_ek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Žižekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Žižek's work as a whole and decisivelymoves it forward." In These Times, "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Žižekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Žižek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." In These Times, "A remarkable demonstration of continental philosophical and psychoanalytical pyrotechnics. More provocative ideas per page than normally found in whole books by the dull anglophone empiricists who find him so threatening." - Paul A. Taylor, Times Higher Education, "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Žižek enacts a dazzling display ofphilosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes,and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... Žižek is athinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative."The Guardian, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj _i_ek." Tikkun, "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Zizekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisivelymoves it forward." In These Times, Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Žižek needs right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Žižek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward., In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Žižek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone....Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative., "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Žižek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative." The Guardian, "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what _i_ekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates _i_ek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." In These Times, Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Möbius strip., In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Zizek enacts a dazzling display of philosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes, and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone....Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative., Zizek has only to clap eyes on a received truth to feel the intolerable itch to deface it....Zizek is that rare breed of writer -- one who is both lucid and esoteric. If he is sometimes hard to understand, it is because of the intricacy of his ideas, not because of a self-preening style., "In this huge, thrilling book, Slavoj Zizek enacts a dazzling display ofphilosophy as performance art, delighting in upsetting readers' expectations, inserting sly jokes,and castigating the 'boring' political analyses of just about everyone.... Zizek is athinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative."The Guardian, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better thanSlavoj Žižek." Tikkun, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj Žižek." Tikkun, Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Zizek needs right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Zizek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward., "Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor withcompulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of histheoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whoseevery loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, "Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor withcompulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of histheoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whoseevery loop is a Möbius strip." Publishers Weekly, Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the clearest elaboration of his theoretical framework thus far....This challenging book takes us on a roller-coaster ride whose every loop is a Mbius strip., "Frankly, a magnum opus is exactly what Žižekneeds right now.... The Parallax View consolidates Žižek's work as a whole and decisively moves it forward." In These Times, "No one demonstrates the continued philosophical vitality of Marxism better than Slavoj Žižek." Tikkun
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Synopsis
In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political-and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View , Zizek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax- the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat-a condition Zizek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Zizek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics-including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes., In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political-and rehabilitates dialectical materialism., In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political--and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View , Zizek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat--a condition Zizek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Zizek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics--including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
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B4870.Z593P37 2009
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