Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262036819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Slavoj iek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, T he Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and iek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.
. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, T he Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and iek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press. Slavoj iek, a philosopher and cul
From the economico-philosophical perspective, iek extrapolates from ontological excess to Marxian surplus value to Lacan's surplus enjoyment. If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj iek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), iek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. He proceeds from the universal dimension of philosophy to the particular dimension of sexuality to the singular dimension of