Fabio Vighi: On Zizek's Dialectics

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Beschreibung

On Zizek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Zizek by investigating its epistemological implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. The book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value. If the originality of Zizek's wager lies in the claim that enjoyment secretly sustains our ideological space, can we think of surplus-jouissance in a way that not only unmasks the ruse of capitalism but also adumbrates the construction of an alternative social space?

The answer to this question is developed in the second part of the book. Arguing that the transformative potential of Zizek's epistemology needs to be fully unravelled if it is to avoid the risk of congealing into mere academic exercise, Fabio Vighi attempts to politicise Zizek's groundbreaking critical method by calling upon the necessity to translate its emphasis on the "indigestible" surplus of knowledge into the drive to think the new. Under the current conditions, this creative moment can no longer be delayed.

Über den Autor

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi.

Zusammenfassung

Draws out the theoretical and practical implications of a psychoanalytically-derived theory of enjoyment vis-a-vis global capitalism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: The enjoyment of capitalism: surplus-jouissance and work

1. The will to enjoyment
2. Jouissance at arm's length
3. From surplus-value to surplus-jouissance
4. The unbearable lightness of being the proletariat
5. Shame, subversion, and manual labour
6. Karatani's wager

Excursus 1: Georges Bataille's potlach and the splendour of rags

Excursus 2: Silvio Berlusconi's enjoyment and related obscenities

Part II: The surplus of thought: epistemology and dialectics

7. From subject to a political subject
8. Democracy under duress
9. Dialectical materialism as parallax
10. The vicissitudes of subtraction
11. The invisible rabbit inside the hat
12. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in it'

Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781441160485
ISBN-10:	1441160485
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Vighi, Fabio
Hersteller:	Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Fabio Vighi
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.01.2012
Gewicht:	0,307 kg