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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511997903321

Autore

Irwin Jones

Titolo

Žižek and his contemporaries : on the emergence of the Slovenian Lacan / / Jones Irwin, Helena Motoh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014

ISBN

1-4411-5395-0

1-4725-9404-5

1-4411-5885-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

199/.4973

Soggetti

Philosophy - Slovenia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Was Going On In Ljubljana? -- 2. The Lacan Effect -- 3. From Punk to Cogito to Voice: On Mladen Dolar -- 4. 'Learn, Learn and Learn': On Slavoj Zizek -- 5. 'From Haso to Mujo': On Zupancic Epilogue: 'We Don't Know What Will Become Of This Psychoanalysis -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Žižek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy. Yet despite his image as an isolated genius, this timely book relocates Žižek as a thinker whose ideas are born of a specifically Slovenian context. Although only coming to international notice in the early 1990s, the Slovenian school needs to be understood as the culmination of a series of intellectual, artistic and political movements inextricably connected to the quest for the succession of Slovenia from Yugoslavia. These developments in thought must also be seen in the light of one of the giants of Continental philosophy: Jacques Lacan.Featuring brand new interviews with three of its forerunners - Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic - this fascinating account details each philosopher's individual concerns, whilst shedding light on the complex genealogy and continuing development of the Slovenian Neo-Lacanian



school. Rarely are we afforded such an opportunity to study the birth of a philosophy from a seminal moment in modern history"--Bloomsbury Publishing.