The Parallax View by Zizek, Slavoj - 2006

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. ix (i), 433 (1) pp, series foreword, Introduction - Dialectical Materialism at the Gates: I. The Stellar Parrallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference: 1. The Subject, This "Inwardly Circumcised Jew"; 2. Building Blocks for a Materialist Theology; Interlude 1. Kate's Choice, or, The Materialism of Henry James. II. The Solar Paralax: The Unbearable Lightness of Being No One: 3. The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Divine Shit; The Loop of Freedom; Interlude 2. Object Petit A in Social Lines, or, The Impasses of Anti-Anti-Semitism. III. The Lunar Parallax: Toward a Politics of Subtraction: 5. From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Power; 6. The Obscene Knot of Ideology, and Hw to Unite It; notes, index. Short Circuits series: First Edition, 2006. "The Parallax View is 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. The author focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation; and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work." Not Price Clipped. Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Tan half-cloth with brown paper-covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine..