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Surplus-Enjoyment - Slavoj Žižek

Surplus-Enjoyment

A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

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Buch | Softcover
400 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40939-2 (ISBN)
CHF 23,80 inkl. MwSt
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn’t be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of ‘enjoyment’ we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World

1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology
2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy
3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our Oppression

Finale: Subjective Destitution As A Political Category

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10 1-350-40939-1 / 1350409391
ISBN-13 978-1-350-40939-2 / 9781350409392
Zustand Neuware
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