The Sublime Object of Ideology Hardcover - 1989
by Slavoj Zizek
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In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Žižek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the "Titanic" to Hitchcock's "Rear Window," from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from "Alien" to the Jewish Joke, the author's acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
Žižek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a 'post-ideological' world ignores the fact that 'even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them'. Rejecting postmodernism's unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates.
Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, "The Sublime Object of Ideology" represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.
Details
- Title The Sublime Object of Ideology
- Author Slavoj Zizek
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Verso
- Date 1989-11-17
- ISBN 9780860912569 / 0860912566
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90104104
- Dewey Decimal Code 140
Media reviews
“The Elvis of cultural theory.”—Chronicle of Higher Education
“The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.”—The Village Voice
“The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades.”—Terry Eagleton
“Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism”—The Times
“Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative.”—Guardian
“Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability.”—Publishers Weekly
“Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation”—New Yorker
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