Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Zahi Zalloua.
• Editors: Di Leo, Jeffrey R; Zalloua, Zahi
• Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Understanding Žižek, Understanding ModernismJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, US)Part I: Mapping Žižek1. Lacan and Žižek on the Cogito and the Modern: Galileo, or Hegel?, Ed Puth2. Žižek's Hegel, our Hegel, Agon Hamza3. Žižek and the (Chinese Dialectic of the) Revolution, Frank Ruda4. Being Sexed: Žižek's Modern Ontology, James Penney5. Nil Actum Credens, Si Quid Superesset Agendum: or, Slavoj, Can't You See I'm Burning? Žižek avec the Clusterfuck of 2020, Clint Burnham6. What's Wrong with Being Happy? Žižek's Critique of Happiness, Jeffrey R. Di LeoPart II. A Leftist Plea for Modernism 7. Žižek avec Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua8. Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To?, Cindy Zeiher9. Hitchcock's Modernist Hauntology, Laurence Simmons10. Žižek's Redemptive Reading of Richard Wagner's Ambivalent Modernity, Erik Vogt11. Žižek's Critique of the Authoritarian Personality, Geoff Boucher12. What Is Worth Salvaging In Modernity: A Realist Perspective From Non-Philosophical Marxism to Žižek's Universalism, Katerina Kolozova13. Are We Human? Or, Posthumanism and the Subject of Modernity, Matthew FlisfederPart III: Glossary14. Enjoyment, Todd McGowan15. Ideology, Glyn Daly16. Universality, Ilan Kapoorr17. The Subject, Russell Sbriglia18. Symptom, David J. Gunkel19. Class, Matthew Bost20. Violence, Oxana Timofeeva 21. The Death Drive, Zahi ZallouaNotes on ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: Literary theory; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Literary Criticism -- European -- Eastern; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501367458; 1501367455
• Related ISBNs: 9781501367441
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