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Zizek: Beyond Foucault

By Fabio Vighi , Heiko Feldner

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230001513, 9780230001510, 9780230592766
LCC
B4870.Z594 F45 2007
Open Library ID
OL10193709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1198882 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
260\260
Library
demonoid.me
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

In Slavoj Zizek and Michel Foucault, this book brings together two of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary critical theory. Starting from a critical assessment of the Foucauldian paradigm of discourse analysis, it explores the theoretical scope and political consequences of Zizek's blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist politics. The comparison between the two thinkers throws into relief the commonalities and irreconcilable differences of their respective approaches to critical theory. By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is `to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Zizek) and to change it.

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