Name: The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (Radical Thinkers)
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Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 9781844670611

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The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (Radical Thinkers)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Slavoj Zizek

Publisher

Verso Books

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

221

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

1844670619

ISBN13

9781844670611

Synopsis "The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (Radical Thinkers) "

The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of “irrational” violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author’s analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of The Crying Game and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations.

Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He teaches continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first text in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he moved away from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that heavily relied on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism.

In 2012, Foreign Policy included Žižek in its list of the top 100 global thinkers, calling him a "philosophical celebrity." Žižek's work was featured in a 2005 documentary titled Zizek!. An academic journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to understand his work.

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