Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion

Name: Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion
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ISBN: 9781844677139

ISBN-10: 1844677133

ISBN-13: 9781844677139

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Slavoj Zizek

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List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.74" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.704



Introduction: On Ideological Antioxidants



The Myth and Its Vicissitudes


Hamlet before Oedipus


The birth of beauty out of the object


From comedy to tragedy


The myth of postmodernity


'Thrift, thrift, Horatio!'


Agape-The enigma of/in the Other



Hitler as Ironist?


Was the Holocaust diabolical Evil?


Laugh yourself to death!


The Muslim


Beneath tragedy and comedy



When the Party Commits Suicide


'The Power of the Powerless'


The Communist sacrifice


Stalin-Abraham against Bukharin-Isaac


Stalinist jouissance


Lenin versus Stalin


When discourse implodes


Excursus: Shostakovich and the resistance to Stalinism


The radical ambiguity of Stalinism



Melancholy and the Act


Lack is not the same as loss


'Post-secular thought?' No, thanks!


The Other: Imaginary, symbolic, and real


The ethical act: Beyond the reality principle


A plea for materialist creationism


The Pope Versus the Dalai Lama


John Woo as a critic of Levinas: The face as a fetish



Are Cultural Studies Really Totalitarian?


The burning question


The two Reals


The 'Third Culture' as ideology


The impasse of historicism-Theoretical state apparatuses


Conclusion: ï¿½...and what are the destitute (totalitarians) for in a poetic timer?'


Notes


Index