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Badiou, Žižek, and political transformations : the cadence of change /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnston, Adrian, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; Preface: "Be Reasonable: Demand the Impossible!"-The Contemporary Importance of Badiou and Žižek; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Badiouian- Žižekian Politburo-Political Interventions in the Shadow of Lacan; Part 1. Alain Badiou: From Event to Act; 1. The Quick and the Dead: Badiou and the Split Speeds of Transformation; 2. One Must Have Confidence That the Other Does Not Exist: Select Preconditions for Events and Acts in Contemporary Circumstances; Part 2. Slavoj Žižek: From Act to Event; 3. The Cynic's Fetish: Žižek and the Dynamics of Belief.
  • 4. From the Spectacular Act to the Vanishing Act: The Politics of Lacanian TheoryAppendix A: "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom!": Some Brief Remarks on and Responses to Žižek's "Badiou: Notes from an Ongoing Debate"; Appendix B: Slavoj Žižek, "An Answer to Two Questions"; Notes; Works Cited; Index.