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Slavoj Žižek is widely regarded as one of the world's most important contemporary thinkers. His work has contributed dramatically to the reinvention and revivification of many key theoretical and political debates. Indeed, his vociferous and challenging body of work amounts to a sustained, ground-breaking, terrain-shifting and far reaching intervention into a large number of academic disciplines, intellectual fields and cultural debates. The Truth of Žižek addresses the rigorous critical assessment demanded by this broad and increasingly influential corpus. This timely and compelling collection of essays from an international team of leading Žižekian scholars addresses the full range of Žižek's theoretical interventions, assessing critically the political, philosophical, psychoanalytical, cultural and institutional stakes of his work. Each chapter engages with and challenges Žižek's thought to explicate a key aspect of his work, clarifying its importance and challenging its claims through rigorous critique. By focusing on Žižek's contributions to these disciplines, fields and debates, this collection sets out to diagnose and assess the emergence of a ' Žižekian moment' within contemporary intellectual, cultural and political events. The Truth of Žižek provides the first sustained engagement with and assessment of the significant impact of Žižek's work. This compelling and valuable collection of essays from cutting edge scholars picks up the gauntlet thrown down by Žižek: the demand that his readers respond with 'the coldness and cruelty of true friendship.'
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- Published on: 2007-07-10
- Released on: 2007-07-10
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Mentioned as tie-in to film 'Zizek'. (Publishing News)
Anthologies providing context on contemporary thought and contemporary thinkers often err on the side of eulogy and submission to the reputation of the specific philosopher-hero. This collection of essays on the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek at least has the advantage of being a precise opposite to this usual norm. In the same way that Žižek's own work pulls no punches in its assessments and critiques of the other thinkers, so too this collection vehemently challenges the bases of Žižek's myriad claims and counter-claims. Indeed, several of the essays adopt the strategy of personalizing the argument even towards ad hominem points (a strategy Žižek lambasts in his Afterward). " - Dr Jones Irwin, The Philosopher
Anthologies providing context on contemporary thought and contemporary thinkers often err on the side of eulogy and submission to the reputation of the specific philosopher-hero. This collection of essays on the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek at least has the advantage of being a precise opposite to this usual norm. In the same way that Žižek’s own work pulls no punches in its assessments and critiques of the other thinkers, so too this collection vehemently challenges the bases of Žižek’s myriad claims and counter-claims. Indeed, several of the essays adopt the strategy of personalizing the argument even towards ad hominem points (a strategy Žižek lambasts in his Afterward). " - Dr Jones Irwin, The Philosopher
About the Author
Paul Bowman teaches Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (Edinburgh UP, 2007), Deconstructing Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2008) and Theorizing Bruce Lee (Rodopi, 2009). Richard Stamp is Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Film &Screen Studies at Bath Spa University, UK.
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
embarrassing 'scholarship'-but can function for some higher end
By noeton
Perhaps the idea behind this book is: 'With what passes for 'truth' these days, why not try obfuscation?'
When the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason emerged, Kant was ignored except for a few concerned empiricists. Their awkward attempts to render Kant a 'higher Berkeleyian' nevertheless proved useful in provoking further efforts to grasp the critical turn, leading to the later developments in German Idealism which we all know and love. Let us hope "The Truth of Zizek" can come to merit a similar place in history. If not, it will surely find its place in the dustbin.
A collection of committed culture studies hacks, deconstructionists, and discourse theorists, all with bayonets fixed, it suffers from a tenor of so many butcher's wives who can't fully integrate the challenge to their positions Zizek has been laying out for years. There is very little, if any, substantive engagement with the core of Zizek's theory. At its best there are some respectable and interesting attempts, but at its worst there is little but name-calling and misrepresentation borne of lazy research and old-fashioned sophistry. One is tempted to think the entire project of the book was to license further academic straw-maning of Zizek in a desperate strategy to prolong a serious confrontation with his philosophy. Yet as though their own dictum of tolerant fairness proved their undoing, in the final essay Zizek responds, (bitterly, as he hoped for more,) laying waste to their efforts. It is so effective, one is further tempted by the conspiracy theory that Zizek orchestrated the whole affair to make himself look good by way of contrast with his rivals.
If you are seeking the truth of Zizek, this work remains to be done. If you are looking for the truth of the Academy, you've found it. Three stars for this moderately provocative bungled effort. I suppose students of current philosophical trends, who require easy pickings for their scholarship, will find this book an abundant resource.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
commodification of Zizek,
By scarecrow
This focus is what Zizek abhors, if you ever hear him,while twitching-touching incessantly his nose,face;sweeping back fast his eyebrows; this commodification is the very paradox he loves and hates,Has he been "concretized" now? No I hope not, well not with one single Book as this one;In the process we can say the dialectic of technologies of the Self is amplified beyond Foucault's "fragmentizing" power indices; He is now transformed.I don't know if he likes that. He'd rather be the one "commodifying".
Taking him down a notch or two(if that was the intent here),is perhaps a comradly endeavor, Love is given, a Badiou-ian category of ontology; or peerless cognitive illumination the kind Dennett does. We don't know.But Zizek loves the complexities of the Mind and where it goes, What it desires,So a "Critique" can "Doublkeback" onto itself, if it is not careful. For we all desire the same thing;
We, most of us as Zizek loves the welters and nested areas of ambiguity and often finds it in Cinema or Opera.We feel much like Wotan, in control but out of it in what we have done. What Zizek has done then is open to a "Kritique".
His own Lacanian "comfort zones", Literature, the Cinema,Popular culture are places to start; That's where Ideology resides there within the Kung Fu Panda.. In fact the two writers here claim there is too much opaque unexplained undecipherables in Slavoj,that need thought. We need to think clearly and tidy him up. .
But the subject here is difficult to take-apart,to see weaknesses.
In reclaiming Hegel and Lacan via Marx, Zizek has full arsenals of reserve, he can go 30 rounds in a 15 Round Bout.And shows he's more committed to certain subjects and places in the globe than those who are suppose to be, like his Middle East bouts with Bernard-Henri Levy.
It's like saying you don't like the shape of a circle because it is too much a "circle", Why can't it be something else.
Theory provides predictabilities,The Lordship and Bondsman, consistent with how we function within the Real; things we don't know we become.
So Bowman and Stamp got lots to do within The Hegel-Lacan-via Marx reclamations. Those are all strong "force fields", easily providing "Cognitive Maps"(as Jameson says someplace)for Zizek and his intense performative impassioned Lectures.
He has made himself impenetrable,like North Korea,Kansas or parts of Lebanon itself. Zizek's "Great Wall" are many and he depends on the tried and the tested by bringing fresh accents and content to every subject he touches and twitches around.
Zizek's ambiguities reflects its own resonance in the hinterlands of theory. He has "Hollywoodized" this for us;So how do we pin it down.
These twin movement(s) between the Imaginary,the Symbolic and the Real, again Lacanian "pillars" of consciousness are strong and everything in between doesn't yield good diatribe.
Everything between Zizek also finds fascinating; His incessant digressions(improvisations) are ones trying to discover the boundaries between one to the other;(where Art ends and Reality begins, or where language tells us more about Alice's Tea Party) Well, one digression is worth a Thousand Pictures;
But the two authors here, well versed in theory that Zizek spouts and promuligates finds ample ground to tweak the Slovenian 'bear' at times but only in moments of those nested hibernations Adorno, and Badiou would call "Universals".Unalterable at times, things that transcend the Present.
You can't pin Slavoj down for too long because the thought itself is always in flux-motion,anxiety-ridden,progressive, searching, and when it does stop it does stop on lifeworld thinking we all can hang our hats on.When it does stop he's off to a new subject a new paradigm to contemplate.
What this book does do is start the process for more critique of what we already have of Slavoj, Where do we meet him then?, on the other side of the mountain?No, right here and now, we work backwards, as Adorno daid of Hegel, what does he mean to current reality as we find it Right Now! Books like this unfortunate are part of the system to be criticized;the self-sustaining system self-perpetuating itself, isn't that capitalism?
You need to go directly to the sources,Zizeks and those suggested in Slavoj if you want to be a brother or a sister and find weak points,weak realms, "unknown" Rumsfeldian places. Take for example Slavoj lack of real everyday political activism,He learns much from talking on the phone, away from the Frontlines; his glibness(only at times) with economics;He rarely mentions Peter Gowan, Giovanni Arrighi, or Robert Brenner, soul-mates par excellance I'd think, But Wait ! that might be the next Book. . . He does have a focus on the classic all-encompassing "political economy" of Marx, but again it is only applied in case by case manner, not seeing the full systemic of a situation,perhaps like a David Harvey or Mike Davis.
To see the content of current financial meltdown Slavoj is only a passing place.Go to where it really happens,Of course He would tell you the same as well.
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