Žižek and Heidegger : the question concerning techno-capitalism

Žižek and Heidegger : the question concerning techno-capitalism / Thomas Brockelman.

Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world''s leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Žižek''s oeuvre is largely a response...

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Main Author: Brockelman, Thomas P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Series:Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
Subjects:
Žižek, Slavoj.
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976.
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976
Žižek, Slavoj
Heidegger, Martin.
Technology > Philosophy.
Capitalism > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Capitalism > Philosophy
Technology > Philosophy
Kapitalismus
Technik
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Le Style Žižek and the question of finitude; Beginning from style?; Reading Žižek(,) reading Heidegger; Acknowledgements; Part I: Žižek and Heidegger: the alpha and the omega; 1. Thinking, finitely: Žižek on Heidegger on finitude; Being and Time and modernity: the insight; Heidegger's retreat; History and political life: Nazism and will; 2. Žižek and the other Heidegger: technology and danger; Žižek on Heidegger on technology; Technology is not the question; Right question. Wrong answer: the crisis of technology rehabilitated; The end of "Žižek and Heidegger": breaking up.
  • Part II: Slowing Žižek down: modernity and techno-capitalism3. Missing the point: Slavoj Žižek on perspective, modernity and subjectivity; The Cartesian specter and the ghost of perspective; Fundamental fantasy and master signifier; Modernity and fantasy; Conclusion; 4. The techno-capitalist danger: ideology and contemporary society; Ideology today: re-calibrating dialectical materialism; The perverse individual; Culture: de-materializing the social; The dark force: violence and techno-capitalism; Over-identification and revolution; Part III: The split subject of history.
  • 5. Splitting history: Žižek on utopia and revolutionRevolution: the impossible; The labor of the act; Unfolding revolution: where does Žižek stand?; 6. The pervert and the philosopher (as witnessed by) the theologian and the analyst; Christianity and perversity in The Puppet and the Dwarf; The desire of the analyst; Conclusion: Žižek ex Machina; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Z.

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