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Žižek Slavoj |
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Titolo |
The universal exception / / Slavoj Žižek ; edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2007 |
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©2006 |
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1-4725-7007-3 |
0-8264-9530-3 |
1-4725-7009-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (465 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political science |
Capitalism |
Communism |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 |
Culture |
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the paperback edition; Editors' introduction; Section One The absent 'second way'; Chapter 1 Eastern European liberalism and its discontents; Chapter 2 Why we all love to hate Haider; Memory traces of Labour; Perduring in the place; Chapter 3 Heiner Müller out of joint; Section two Really existing socialism; Chapter 4 Why are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst not Fascists?; Chapter 5 The fetish of the party; The totalitarian body; Phallus and fetish; Stalinist discourse; The Real of 'class struggle' |
Stalinism versus FascismThe totalitarian fantasy, the totalitarianism of the fantasy; Chapter 6 Georg Lukács as the philosopher of Leninism; I; II; III; IV; V; Chapter 7 Prolegomena to a theory of Kolkhoz musicals; Chapter 8 Attempts to escape the logic of capitalism; Note; Section three Really existing capitalism; Chapter 9 Multiculturalism, or, the |
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cultural logic of multinational capitalism; Why is the single mother 'typical'?; Desire and its articulation; Conservative basic instincts; Censorship, power and resistance; The logic of Capital; Ideological underground; The time machine |
'Concrete' versus 'abstract' universalityModernism in reverse; Multiculturalism; The machine in the ghost; For a leftist suspension of the law; The universality to come; Chapter 10 A leftist plea for 'Eurocentrism'; Politics and its disavowals; From politics to post-politics; Excessive violence; From the sublime to the ridiculous; For a leftist appropriation of the European legacy; Chapter 11 A plea for 'passive aggressivity'; Chapter 12 The three faces of Bill Gates; Chapter 13 The prospects of radical politics today; From human to animal rights; The Möbius strip of politics and economy |
Fetishism todaySection four What is (not) to be done; Chapter 14 Against the double blackmail; Note; Chapter 15 Welcome to the desert of the Real (reflections on 11 September 2001); Seizing the Real; The symbolism of a catastrophe; A distilled version of our own essence; The falsity of 'reality television'; An impotent passage à l'acte; The 'clash of civilizations'; Bad omens; A new Berufsverbot; This very innocence is not innocent; What happened on 11 September?; Resisting the double blackmail; 'Collateral damage'; The stupidity of the Left; 'Small nationalism' |
Evil resides in the innocent gaze'Infinite justice'; 'Love thy neighbour'; Chapter 16 The Iraq War - where is the true danger?; The borrowed kettle; Europe and globalization I; Europe and globalization II; The true danger . . .; The end of the 'roaring 90s'; 'The decisive moment . . .'; The 'soft revolution'; Right-populism with a human face; Chapter 17 Some politically incorrect reflections on violence in France and related matters; The Fundamentalist Impasse; The Terrorist Ressentiment; Escape from New Orleans; The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape; Class Struggle in France, Again |
Author's afterword |
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