Product Description
"Did Somebody Say Ideology?" explores the philosophical, political, and psychoanalytic foundations of Slavoj Zizek's work, almost two decades after his arrival on the international scene of contemporary philosophy with "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (1989). The book generally focuses on the understanding and applicability of Zizek's theory of ideology, arguably the distinguishing and most original feature in his oeuvre so far. The first part contains six essays that carry out specific investigations into key aspects of the Slovenian philosopher's work; the second part practices Zizek's own injunction about Lacan ("discover Lacanian themes everywhere!") on Zizek himself, employing his theories in different contexts and relating them to other thinkers.Each study in the present volume testifies to the extraordinary vitality of Zizek's writing, demonstrating how his psychoanalytic brand of ideology critique fosters innovative research in a variety of intellectual fields and academic disciplines."The book has a great deal to offer to undergraduate and postgraduates students of Zizek's extremely impressive oeuvre. But it will also be of great use to academics and everybody else interested in philosophy, cinema, feminism, psychoanalysis, radical politics and nationalism in the Balkans. The detailed exposition of Zizek is masterfully complemented by detailed discussions of Badiou, Bataille, Deleuze, Foucault and Lacan. "Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Zizek and Consequences" is likely to be one of the most important books on Zizek in recent years and an original contribution to contemporary social theory." - Darrow Schecter, University of Sussex.
About the Author
Fabio Vighi is Lecturer in Italian Studies at Cardiff University, author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2006) and Zizek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner). Heiko Feldner is Lecturer in German Studies at Cardiff University, author of Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung (1999), Zizek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Fabio Vighi), and co-editor of Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003).
