Description |
xxiv, 248 p. ; 20 cm. |
Series |
Žižek, Slavoj.
Works. Selections. 2008.
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Note |
Reissued with a new preface by the author - Main text originally published: 1997. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction ---- 1. The Seven Veils of Fantasy --- 2. Love Thy Neighbour? No, Thanks! --- 3. Fetishism and Its Vicissitudes --- 4. Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being ---- App. I. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Sexual Act in Cinema --- App. II. Robert Schumann: The Romantic Anti-Humanist --- App. III. The Unconscious Law: Towards an Ethics Beyond the Good. |
Summary |
Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions--whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references--explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter--to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives. -- Back cover. |
Subject |
Fantasy.
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Popular culture.
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Ideology.
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Virtual reality.
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Cyberspace.
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ISBN |
9781844673032 (pbk.) |
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1844673030 (pbk.) |
OCLC # |
317746098 |
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