The universal exception / / Slavoj Žižek ; edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens

• Autore: Žižek Slavoj
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2007; ©2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science; Capitalism; Communism; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Culture
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-
• Persona (resp. second.): ButlerRex; StephensScott
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The universal exception
• ISBN: 1-4725-7007-3; 0-8264-9530-3; 1-4725-7009-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817864703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bloomsbury Revelations