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Parallax View

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ISBN-10: 0262512688

ISBN-13: 9780262512688

Edition: 2009

Authors: Slavoj Zizek, S. Zizek

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The Parallax Viewis Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in…    
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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction: Dialectical Materialism at the Gates
The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
The Subject, This "Inwardly Circumcised Jew"
The Tickling Object
The Kantian Parallax
The Birth of (Hegelian) Concrete Universality out of the Spirit of (Kantian) Antinomies
The Master-Signifier and Its Vicissitudes
Soave sia il vento... The Parallax of the Critique of Political Economy
Building Blocks for a Materialist Theology
A Boy Meets the Lady
Kierkegaard as a Hegelian
Die Versagung
The Traps of Pure Sacrifice
The Difficulty of Being a Kantian
The Comedy of Incarnation
Odradek as a Political Category
Too Much Life!
Kate's Choice, or, The Materialism of Henry James
The Solar Parallax: The Unbearable Lightness of Being No One
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Divine Shit
Burned by the Sun
Pick Up Your Cave! Copernicus, Darwin, Freud and Many Others
Toward a New Science of Appearances
Resistances to Disenchantment
When the God Comes Around
The Desublimated Object of Post-Ideology
Danger? What Danger?
The Loop of Freedom
"Positing the Presuppositions"
A Cognitivist Hegel? The False Opacity
Emotions Lie, or, Where Damasio is Wrong
Hegel, Marx, Denett
From Physics to Design? The Unconscious Act of Freedom
The Language of Seduction, the Seduction of Language
Objet Petit A in Social Links, or, The Impasses of Anti-Anti-Semitism
The Lunar Parallax: Toward a Politics of Subtraction
From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Power
Ontic Errance, Ontological Truth
Gelassenheit? No Thanks! Toward the Theory of the Stalinist Musical
The Biopolitical Parallax
The Historicity of the Four Discourses
Jouissance as a Political Category
Do We Still Live in a World?
The Obscene Knot of Ideology, and How to Untie It
The Academic Rumspringa, or, the Parallax of Power and Resistance
Human Rights versus the Rights of the Inhuman
Violence Enframed
The Ignorance of the Chicken
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Fundamentalism? Over the Rainbow Coalition!...
Notes
Index