Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism by Zahi Zalloua

Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism by Zahi Zalloua

Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies—e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics—and pre-modern ones—e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritique—Žižek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene.

This volume takes up the challenges laid out by Žižek’s iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. Žižek’s multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought.

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of Žižek’s writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies.

Di Leo and Zalloua have put together an indispensable guide for understanding the centrality of modernity and modernism in Žižek’s influential interventions in philosophy, politics, film studies, sexuality, psychoanalysis, music, and posthuman studiesThis thought-provoking collection not only maps current conversations and debates in these terrains, but also explains the reasons leftists must still take Žižek’s engagement with modernism seriously. In addition, this stimulating volume generously offers a glossary of major concepts that will appeal to both the knowbies and newbies in Žižekian studies * Jamil Khader, Professor and Dean of Research, Bethlehem University, Palestine *
From some of his earliest works, Slavoj Zizek has always been the champion of the theses that are still – perhaps more than ever – contemporaries of modern philosophy. This collection of wonderful essays, written by some of the leading Zizekian scholars in the world, explores practically every facet of Zizek’s profound engagement with modernity as the name of an impasse that still haunts us. * Gabriel Tupinambá, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (2021) *
Undertanding Žižek, Underszandinng Modernism is an absolutely outstanding collection of essays on Žižek; wide in range, sharp in focus and remarkably vibrant in thought. * Alenka Zupancic, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, The European Graduate School, Switzerland *

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston, Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty-five books including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2018).

Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of five books, including Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). He has edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.

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ISBN 13	9781501367441
ISBN 10	1501367447
Title	Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism
Author	Zahi Zalloua
Series	Understanding Philosophy Understanding Modernism
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2022-12-01
Number of pages	264
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