The Žižek Reader

The Zizek Reader - Which Includes A Preface By Zizek And A New, Previously Unpublished Essay On Cyberspace - Provides A Comprehensive And Accessible Introduction To The Flamboyant Work Of A Figure Who Has Been Variously Described As 'one Of The Most Arresting, Insightful And Scandalous Thinkers In Recent Memory', 'the Giant Of Ljubljana ... The Best Intellectual High Since Anti-oedipus'. His Work Is An Extraordinary Mix Of Hegel And Hitchcock, Schelling And Science Fiction, Kant And Courtly Love, Stalin And Stephen King, All Of Which Is Strongly Seasoned With Lacanian Psychoanalysis.--book Jacket. Preface: Burning The Bridges / Slavoj Zizek -- Pt. I. Culture. 1. The Undergrowth Of Enjoyment: How Popular Culture Can Serve As An Introduction To Lacan. 2. The Obscene Object Of Postmodernity. 3. The Spectre Of Ideology. 4. Fantasy As A Political Category: A Lacanian Approach. 5. Is It Possible To Traverse The Fantasy In Cyberspace? -- Pt. Ii. Woman. 6. Otto Weininger, Or 'woman Doesn't Exist'. 7. Courtly Love, Or Woman As Thing. 8. There Is No Sexual Relationship. 9. Death And The Maiden -- Pt. Iii. Philosophy. 10. Hegel's 'logic Of Essence' As A Theory Of Ideology. 11. Schelling-in-itself: 'the Orgasm Of Forces'. 12. A Hair Of The Dog That Bit You. 13. Kant With (or Against) Sade. 14. Of Cells And Selves. Edited By Elizabeth Wright And Edmond Wright. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [321]-322) And Index.