Overview

This book brings together two of the most influential thinkers in critical theory. By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is 'to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Žižek) and to change it.

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Author:   F. Vighi ,  H. Feldner ,  F Vighi ,  H Feldner
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2007
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349279937

ISBN 10:   1349279935
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue PART I: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OR IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE? Why Discourse? Foucault's Critical Historicism The Positive Unconcious : in Search of the Matrix Suspending Ontological Questions Matrix Releaded: Žižek's Ideology Critique Locating Antagonism: the Return of Class Struggle Beyond Anti-capitalism and Liberal Democracy PART II: ON POWER AND HOW TO ENJOY IT 'Where There is Power ...' '... There is Resistance' The Missing Subject Liberation Hurts: Žižek on Supergo, Masochism and Enacted Utopia The Leninist Act Commodity Fetishism: From Desire to Drive Excursus : Žižek In and Out of Europe PART III: METASTASES OF THE REAL Žižek Against Badiou: the Real Beyond the Event 'There Is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship': the Formal Deadlock of Sexuality Objet a , or the Ruse of Masculinity Woman's 'Not-all' and the Paradox of Passive Aggression The Zero-level of Femininity: the Real as Symbolic Failure The Miracle of Love and the Real of Christianity Epilogue: Maradona in Mexico References Index

Reviews

'Staging a confrontation between perhaps the most influential figures in poststructuralism and psychoanalysis, Vighi and Feldner establish their fundamental sites of overland and opposition as well as the stakes involved in a choice for one rather than the other. Adherents of Foucault can thus no longer avoid the critical challenge of i ek's thought to their basic notions of archeology, genealogy and discourse analysis. As it changes the fundamental terms of academic and political thought, i ek : Beyond Foucault is a vitally important intervention in contemporary politics.' - Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

Author Information

Fabio Vighi is Lecturer in Italian Studies at Cardiff University, author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001) and Traumatic Encounters (2006), and co-editor of Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007). Heiko Feldner is Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, author of Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung (1999) and co-editor of Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007).

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