This title offers a series of conversations which illustrate the
originality of Slavoj Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy,
multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and
politics.In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of
entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking
on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture,
totalitarianism, ethics and politics. Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher who
trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and
cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian
analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace,
film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to
transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and
politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Zizek elaborates on a range of topics
which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of
Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much
more. This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Zizeks humour and
character, and is an ideal introduction to his work.; At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will
be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as
well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural
studies and politics.
