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"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek … one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals.”—John Gray, New York Review of Books“A serious attempt to reanimate or re-actualize Hegel.”—Robert Pippin, author of Hegel’s Idealism“A gifted speaker––tumultuous, emphatic, direct––and he writes as he speaks.” —Jonathan Ree, Guardian“The Hegel that Žižek loves is much like Žižek himself: a relentless iconoclast, a restless wordsmith, an inventive thinker with a hatred of received wisdom, an underminer of conventionally acknowledged truths. Žižek’s Hegel is a kind of cosmic prankster.”—Bookforum"A lucid rendering of modern society’s debt to Hegel."—Publisher’s Weekly"The publication of Less Than Nothing is a major event in contemporary philosophy."—Hey, Small Press
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About the Author
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; In Defense of Lost Causes; four volumes of the Essential Žižek; and many more.
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Paperback: 1056 pages
Publisher: Verso; Reprint edition (September 10, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1781681279
ISBN-13: 978-1781681275
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6.1 x 1.7 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
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Invaluable review of all the philosophy that surrounds/embedded in Hegel from someone who understands it all. Phew!German Idealism is very hard, but now with Zizek leading the way, I GET it !
Many things germinating in the early Zizek oeuvre come to fruition here. Anyone who has been following the progress of this remarkable mind through the years would enjoy reading this magnificent book, finding reinforcement of many earlier themes and enjoying their maturation. Some things are new (at least to me, as I have not read a whole lot of the huge Zizek corpus), among them I would mention a "Lacanized" reading of Fichte, which not only sheds a new light on this great, difficult, and enigmatic thinker, but actually provides a solid framework for understanding his kind of idealism in the first place. Re-interpretation of Anstoss as a construct similar to "objet petit a" will keep any mind occupied for a long time.
This is a sweeping review of Hegel's "dialectical method", its application in his history and phenomenology, and then its outworking in the thought of Hegel's contemporaries and successors. All of this is Zizek applying Hegel (beginning with the genesis of Hegelian-ism in Kant) to [mostly] continental philosophers influenced by Hegel, which comes out to just about everybody in the European antirealist tradition that Kant began. Besides Hegel Lacan takes up the most consideration but beyond him there are many many others to numerous to name.Philosophers never declare themselves for "realism" or "antirealism", a division always reflected in their thought. Zizek is an acknowledged heavyweight in the antirealist domain and his dominant interests, psychology, and political history, reveal themselves in all the threads of this book. He covers these and many more subjects (and philosophers) as he interprets them through Hegel. Sometimes he notes where he thinks their thought "goes wrong" (relative to Hegel) but more often he uses their material to illustrate the added insights they bring to the subject matter via their Hegelian influence.It is impossible to cover this book in detail, but I can describe its broad structure. Imagine a wheel with a hub and spokes, perhaps a bicycle wheel. Zizek begins at the hub with a theme "truth has the structure of fiction", almost his opening line. His writing spirals around the hub in tight circles outward toward the rim. On the way, he crosses the same spokes which in this analogy stand for both discrete subjects within the universe of his interests (and they are broad) and the philosophers whose thought he uses to illustrate his point. Round and round he goes touching the same spokes again and again each time adding more or new context with which to understand the particular subject and philosopher involved. Throughout the book, Zizek weaves together his own commentary with extensive quotes from dozens of philosophers from Kant to Meillassoux. As he crosses each spoke over again their thought is re-illustrated, re-applied to the subject matter at hand whether it be language, sex, politics, economics, history, or quantum mechanics.I am a realist philosopher and it has been a long time since I've read Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Freud, Nietzsche, or Marx. I've not read Lacan, or any of the many other continental antirealists of the later 20th century Zizek uses here. Zizek's vocabulary, evolved over two centuries of antirealism, is dense, obscure, and difficult for me. But as the many subjects are touched on again and again his meaning became clearer. Thanks to the enhancing repetition, retouching each spoke, his central arguments became clearer. Was Zizek's repetition solidifying my impressions, or was I just getting used to the lingo? Probably some of both.There is probably more than one legitimate way to interpret Hegel, Lacan, and the rest. Zizek's authoritative grasp of this material certainly makes his interpretation one of them, an approach to be taken seriously. He runs into trouble only when he crosses into the subject of science, represented by the association between quantum mechanics and cosmology, where he seems a bit out of his depth. His description of the relation between the Higgs field and the "true and false vacuum" (the next-to-last chapter) quotes Paul Steinhardt and is clear enough, but then Zizek goes back and casts this phenomenon in Hegelian, Lacanian, and even Freudian terms! None of this could be more than poetic metaphor, but Zizek doesn't seem to take it that way. To me (and I opine here because I've read so much physics and cosmology) quantum physics as described by modern physicists, can only be understood in realist terms. If I understand antirealism properly nothing in the corpus of antirealist thought can possibly be about (signify) the quantum world which is washed out long before the point where the external horizon appears to phenomenal experience.Although I am not an antirealist, I enjoy reading Zizek. This book is long and dense, but his enthusiasm and humor reveal themselves throughout. I enjoy reading philosophers who are passionate about their work and at the same time refuse to take themselves too seriously. It's hard to tell if Zizek takes himself too seriously. I don't think so, but this ambiguity coupled with a little self-deprecating humor (where do you see that otherwise in philosophy these days) is all a part of the book's charm.To finish this review, I do want to give kudos to the publisher (Verso Books)! I recently read a 125 page Kindle book priced at $40 (greedy publisher who shall remain unnamed). This book is 1000 pages long and only $11! Very reasonable! Highly recommended for Zizek fans and anyone interested in a forcefully argued interpretation of Hegel and much of antirealist thought from Kant to Meillassoux.
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Vast, even excellent. Delivers a great deal intersubjectively, strengthening concepts to the extent that it could be said the author offers something that exceeds the quality, in my opinion, much of what is found in the book's bibliography. Processual limits and related matters of affect and ethos have it so that resolution of minor obstacles falls on reader. Consider it great.
ARE YOU READY TO BRING THE KNIFE DOWN? Zizek is being tortured! He's upset about that. The language-game of philosophical discourse has been thrust upon him and it has been his tortured enclosure. He is an artist, a poet, a movie-goer, an attender of plays. His response therefore, is to torture this philosophy- language "back". He does this with the torsion-drive of a generic concept of "aesthetics". And he asks you to take your offspring of conceptual language (code-name Isaac) and put it on the altar before proceeding with his manuscript. Take the knife in your hand and prepare to sacrifice. Zizek is not difficult to understand. He is brilliant and accessible. But, he is a "slow-slow-slow-slow" read. That's to the 4th power. This 1,000 page book could have probably been reduced to 100 pages of conceptual presentation if you subtracted out the 900 pages of representative "thought-pictures" from the area of aesthetics he uses for illustration. You must (mandatory) have read and understood Badiou's "Being and Event"(2005) before taking on this manuscript. Zizek and Badiou have many similarities and mutually respect each other. Zizek lists his specific differences in the last section, but, by taking up Badiou's point of view, I felt these objections didn't hold much strength. Personally, I agree almost entirely with Zizek's position, so I just gained a lot of reinforcement a good part of the time. But I'm a "conceptual" kind of thinker; just "give me the facts"; so Zizek's style drove me to the aspirin bottle way too much. In fact, I took another tack. I'm using this volume as the Zizek Bible. I've already got his entire position down and now this volume can be used in a topical way to supplement my knowledge. I just did this with "mediation" tonight , and much preferred this approach to the book. Like I said, Zizek is brilliant and fully understandable; I give him 5 stars for sure. But read it front to back - NO WAY. It is a Bible. I'd rather read his"book of Schelling; or "book of Freud"; or one of the topics like "mediation". This is my approach from now on. No more aspirin. If you're a poet at heart, you'll love this style. If you want academic language and concise conceptual presentation - forget it. I feel Zizek and Badiou are the two best postmodern thinkers out there. We now have all of Zizek in one volume which is great.
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