Zizek and Heidegger

The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism

AvThomas Brockelman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Filling a genuine gap in Zizek interpretation - through examining his relationship with Martin Heidegger, the author offers a new and useful overview of Zizek's work."Zizek and Heidegger" offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Zizek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Zizek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in Zizek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's technophobia.Brockelman's critique of Zizek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in Zizek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change.In addition to clarifying what Zizek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it, "Zizek and Heidegger" explores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in Zizek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:467 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826497772

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Thomas Brockelman is Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College, USA. His previous publications include The Frame and the Mirror: On Collage and the Postmodern (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

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"Through a highly innovative gesture, Brockelman introduces a unique way of reinterpreting the entirety of the Žižek's oeuvre through the lens of his under-explored rapport with Heidegger. The thought-provoking picture of Žižek that emerges from Brockelman's careful reading is of someone who takes up the challenge of "thinking the unthought" of Heidegger's treatments of finitude and technology in light of the contemporary dominance of global capitalism. Brockelman makes an important contribution to our understanding of Žižek." - Adrian Johnston, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, USA

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Le Style Zizek and the Question of Finitude; Part I: Zizek and Heidegger: The Alpha and the Omega; 1. Thinking, Finitely: Zizek on Heidegger on Finitude; 2. Zizek and the Other Heidegger: Technology and Danger; Part II: Slowing Zizek Down: Modernity and Techno-Capitalism; 3. Missing the Point: Slavoj Zizek on Perspective, Modernity and Subjectivity; 4. The Techno-Capitalist Danger: Ideology and Contemporary Society; Part III: The Split Subject of History; 5. Splitting History: Zizek on Utopia and Revolution; 6. The Pervert and the Philosopher (as witnessed by) the Theologian and the Analyst Bibliography.