Žižek and his Contemporaries

On the Emergence of the Slovenian Lacan

AvJones Irwin,Helena Motoh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Žižek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy. Yet despite his image as an isolated genius, this timely book relocates Žižek as a thinker whose ideas are born of a specifically Slovenian context. Although only coming to international notice in the early 1990s, the Slovenian school needs to be understood as the culmination of a series of intellectual, artistic and political movements inextricably connected to the quest for the succession of Slovenia from Yugoslavia. These developments in thought must also be seen in the light of one of the giants of Continental philosophy: Jacques Lacan. Featuring brand new interviews with three of its forerunners - Žižek, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic - this fascinating account details each philosopher's individual concerns, whilst shedding light on the complex genealogy and continuing development of the Slovenian Neo-Lacanian school. Rarely are we afforded such an opportunity to study the birth of a philosophy from a seminal moment in modern history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-19
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:401 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continnuum-3PL
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441111784

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Jones Irwin is Lecturer in Philosophy and Human Development in the Education Department at St Patrick 's College, Dublin City University, Ireland. Helena Motoh is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

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This is a wonderfully informative book, a kind of "Once upon a Time, Ljubljana," in which elevated philosophical debates and emerging political and cultural realities keep crossing over into each other's frames. It tells the story -- not anecdotally, but analytically, with a wealth of theoretical sophistication -- of how, from the tiny country of Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek and his closest colleagues, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic, encouraged and inspired by a phalanx of talented artists and intellectuals, launched a distinctive school of thought (both Lacanian and Marxist) with universal appeal. The real accomplishment of the "back story" is that it sets this thought into relief; that is, it tarnishes neither its distinction nor its universality.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Was Going On In Ljubljana?2. The Lacan Effect 3. From Punk to Cogito to Voice: On Mladen Dolar 4. ‘Learn, Learn and Learn’: On Žižek 5. ‘From Haso to Mujo’: On Zupancic Epilogue: ‘We Don’t Know What Will Become Of This Psychoanalysis’EndnotesBibliographyIndex