Introducing Slavoj Žižek / Christopher Kul-Want and Piero.
By: Want, Christopher
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Contributor(s): Piero.
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BookPublisher: London : Icon Books, 2011Description: 176 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.ISBN: 9781848312937.Subject(s): Žižek, Slavoj | Philosophers -- Slovenia | Psychoanalysis and culture | Political science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 199.4973 Summary: "Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Žižek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution. Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Žižek deftly explains Žižek's virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies - Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis - into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment." -- Back cover.
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Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.
Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly explains Zizek's virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies - Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis - into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment.
"A graphic guide".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Žižek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution. Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Žižek deftly explains Žižek's virtuoso ability to transform apparently outworn ideologies - Communism, Marxism and psychoanalysis - into a new theory of freedom and enjoyment." -- Back cover.
Presented by Paddy Byrne.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Christopher Kul-Want is the course director of M.A. Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
Piero is an illustrator, artist, and graphic designer whose work has been exhibited in the Royal College of Art, London.