Wo Es War
Lacan: The Silent Partners
Slavoj Zizek, Adrian Johnston, Alain Badiou, Alenka Zupancic, Bruno Bosteels, Fredric Jameson, Joan Copjec, Lorenzo Chiesa, Miran Bozovic, Mladen Dolar
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Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781844675494
- Published:
- 17 Apr 2006
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 416 pages - 201 x 152 x 33mm
- Availability:
- Available
- Series:
- Wo Es War
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Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and the arts, but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking, so crucial to its proper understanding? In Lacan: The Silent Partners Slavoj Zizek, the maverick theorist and pre-eminent Lacan scholar, has marshalled some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of Lacan's work. Focussing on Lacan's 'silent partners', those who are the hidden inspiration to Lacanian theory, they discuss his work in relation to the Pre-Socratics, Diderot, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schelling, Hölderlin, Wagner, Turgenev, Kafka, Henry James and Artaud. This major collection, including three essays by Zizek, marks a new era in the study of this unsettling thinker, breathing new life into his classic work.
Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art. Yet what if there is another frame of reference which influenced his thinking and is crucial to its proper understanding? This book focuses on Lacan's "silent partners," those who provide a key to Lacanian theory and discusses his work.
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.