Gjesteredaktør Slavoj Zizek

Gjesteredaktør Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek (f. 1949). Slovensk filosof og psykoanalytiker. Spesialist på Hegel og lacaniansk psykoanalyse. Forsker ved Universitetet i Ljubljana og Birkbeck Institute i London. Har siden sitt første engelskspråklige verk, Ideologiens sublime objekt (1989), vært en sentral venstreintellektuell, både gjennom sin store bokproduksjon og kommentarartikler som trykkes i aviser verden over. Siste verk: Violence (2008).

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L'Envers de la dialectique
One of the best philosophical books in the last decades, a detailed Nietzschean critique of Hegel. I disagree with Lebrun, but I love to disagree with him, and I learned a lot from him.
The Odd One in: On Comedy
I am very partial here, Alenka is my good friend and fellow Lacanian, but the achievement of her short book is extraordinary – a Hegelian theory of comedy. You must be a Hegelian to understand the blunders of President Bush!
The Meaning of Sarkozy
Apart from being a great systematic philosopher, Badiou revived the French art of philosophical interventions in politics. The devastating analysis of our capitalist-parliamentary imbroglio culminates in a plea for the actuality of Communism.
Dieu, le sexe et la vérité
The tragic death of Balmes deprived us from what promised to be the greatest commentator of Lacan. Balmes enables us to see why Lacan was not just an analyst, but a philosopher of the first rang.
Les nouveaux blessés
A detailed exploration of the new form of pathology which will be our fate in the XXIst century: the post-traumatic subject, a living dead, a shell deprived of its life-substance.
Soul
I don’t trust artists, especially not poets – Plato was right when he proposed to exile them from the city. But Platonov is an exception: this short novel of a functionary sent to “civilize” a small group of outcasts in the southern Russia, which takes place in 1935, achieves the impossible: it unites Socialist Realism with a critique of Stalinism stronger than all dissidence.
A Voice And Nothing More
Again, I am partial, here, Dolar is my friend and Lacanian colleague, but his book on voice is the best Lacanian monography known to me, a detailed analysis of voice in its ontological, political, musical and psychoanalytic dimensions.
Stalin
Unbelievable but true: a book on Stalin which basically defends him, by the nestor of Italian Marxists. I don't agree with him, but I certainly find the book provoking - I couldn't put it down!