Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Zahi Zalloua (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9384-6 (ISBN)

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Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies—e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics—and pre-modern ones—e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritique—Žižek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene.

This volume takes up the challenges laid out by Žižek’s iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. Žižek’s multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought.

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of Žižek’s writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston, Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty-five books including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2018). Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of five books, including Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). He has edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, US)

Part I: Mapping Žižek

1. Lacan and Žižek on the Cogito and the Modern: Galileo, or Hegel?, Ed Puth

2. Žižek’s Hegel, our Hegel, Agon Hamza

3. Žižek and the (Chinese Dialectic of the) Revolution, Frank Ruda

4. Being Sexed: Žižek’s Modern Ontology, James Penney

5. Nil Actum Credens, Si Quid Superesset Agendum: or, Slavoj, Can’t You See I’m Burning? Žižek avec the Clusterfuck of 2020, Clint Burnham

6. What’s Wrong with Being Happy? Žižek’s Critique of Happiness, Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Part II. A Leftist Plea for Modernism

7. Žižek avec Montaigne, Zahi Zalloua

8. Žižek and the Bartleby Paradox: I Would Prefer Not To?, Cindy Zeiher

9. Hitchcock’s Modernist Hauntology, Laurence Simmons

10. Žižek’s Redemptive Reading of Richard Wagner’s Ambivalent Modernity, Erik Vogt

11. Žižek’s Critique of the Authoritarian Personality, Geoff Boucher

12. What Is Worth Salvaging In Modernity: A Realist Perspective From Non-Philosophical
Marxism to Žižek’s Universalism, Katerina Kolozova

13. Are We Human? Or, Posthumanism and the Subject of Modernity, Matthew Flisfeder

Part III: Glossary

14. Enjoyment, Todd McGowan

15. Ideology, Glyn Daly

16. Universality, Ilan Kapoorr

17. The Subject, Russell Sbriglia

18. Symptom, David J. Gunkel

19. Class, Matthew Bost

20. Violence, Oxana Timofeeva

21. The Death Drive, Zahi Zalloua

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-9384-7 / 1501393847
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9384-6 / 9781501393846
Zustand	Neuware