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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Guide
- Topic
- Enjoyment
- ISBN
- 9781350226258
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1350226254
ISBN-13
9781350226258
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2328310520
Product Key Features
Book Title
Surplus-Enjoyment : a Guide for the Non-Perplexed
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Movements / Idealism, Political
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Philosophy, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-942412
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[zizek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker ... zizek is at heart really a close reader and a seriously inventive one." -- The Spectator, [zizek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker ... zizek is at heart really a close reader and a seriously inventive one.
Dewey Decimal
339.47
Table Of Content
Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World 1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology 2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy 3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our Oppression Finale: Subjective Destitution As A Political Category Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, zizek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?
LC Classification Number
B4870
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