The Most Sublime Hysteric

Slavoj Zizek 지음

Polity 2014년 08월 12일 출간

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What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every cliche' and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for new ways of answering these questions. When Lacan described Hegel as the lsquo;most sublime hysteric', he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come.This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought.

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Introduction: Impossible Absolute KnowledgeBook I: Hegel and Lacan1. "The Formal Aspect" : Reason versus Understanding2. The Retroactive Perfomative, or how the necessary3. The Dialectic as Logic of the Signifier (1): The One of Self-Reference4. The Dialectic as Logic (2): The Real of the "triad"5. Das Ungeschehenmachen: How is Lacan a Hegelian?6. The "Cunning of Reason" or the true nature of the Hegelian teleology7. "The Suprasensible is the Phenomenon as Phenomenon" or how Hegel goes beyond the Kantian8. Two Hegelian Witze, which will help us understandBook II: Post-Hegelian Impasses9. The Secret of the Commodity Form: Why is Marx the Inventor of the Symptom?10. Ideology Between the Dream and the Phantasy: A first attempt at defining "Totalitarianism"11. Divine Psychosis, Political Psychosis: A second attempt at defining "Totalitarianism"12. Between Two Deaths: Third, and final, attempt at defining "Totalitarianism"13. The Quilting Point of Ideology: Or why Lacan is not a "post-structuralist"14. Naming and Contingency: Hegel and Analytic Philosophy

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The Most Sublime Hysteric clearly outlines the logic at the basis of the thought of the most important philosopher of our time. With care and precision, i ek conjoins Hegel and Lacan, building the components of his own unique and powerful philosophical system. This long-awaited translation of i ek's doctoral dissertation provides a valuable new point of entry to his work, appropriate for experts and newcomers alike.Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith CollegesSlavoj i ek&'s doctoral thesis on Hegel, Lacan, and the impasses of post-Hegelianism is as fresh today as it was in 1982. Written with his characteristic wit and exceptional lucidity, this book will clarify the foundational ideas of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles

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저자(글) Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Zizek is Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.