Description
Uncompromisingly radical, hypercerebral but also down to earth and irreverent, Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher whose thought is sometimes hard to plot a route through.
Charting its innumerable hairpins and circuitous diversions, this cognitive map of Žižek country is a guide to its philosophical, psychoanalytic and political landscapes. Žižek's prodigious output comprises a dense and layered critique of contemporary thought. Taking its lead from his web-like approach, Žižek Country is an A to Z of cross-referenced entries that covers the range of his preoccupations - from Terminator to the transcendental and Marx to the möbius strip. Each topic is explored both as a direct subject of Žižek's focus and as a component of his broader philosophy. Every entry is fully referenced, pointing readers to the key points in his books and articles, as well as his many interviews, talks and panel discussions.
Together, these ideas, threads, and repeated motifs give shape to a challenging, sometimes difficult philosophy that defies ready assimilation into academia and easy thinking.
Table of Contents
2. Absolute Knowing
3. Act / Event
4. AI
5. atheist theology
6. Althusser, Louis
7. antagonism
8. Antigone
9. antinomies
10. anti-Semitism
11. Aristotle
12. Aufhebung
13. Badiou, Alain
14. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
15. beautiful soul
16. Beckett, Samuel
17. Benjamin, Walter
18. big Other
19. Blade Runner
20. Blade Runner 2049
21. Bolshevik movement
22. Borromean knot
23. Brecht, Bertolt
24. Buddhism
25. capitalism
26. Casablanca
27. Chaplin, Charles
28. Chesterton, G. K.
29. Christ
30. Christianity
31. cinema
32. class struggle
33. commodity fetishism
34. Communism
35. concrete universality
36. contingency and necessity
37. contradiction
38. Covid pandemic
39. death drive
40. Deleuze, Gilles
41. Derrida, Jacques
42. Descartes, René
43. desire
44. determinate negation
45. dialectic
46. Dickens, Charles
47. dreams
48. drive
49. ecology
50. Eliot, T. S.
51. Enjoyment (jouissance)
52. fantasy
53. Foucault, Michel
54. freedom
55. French Revolution
56. Freud, Sigmund
57. Geist
58. German Idealism
59. God
60. Habermas, Jurgen
61. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
62. Heidegger, Martin
63. Hitchcock, Alfred
64. Holocaust
65. idealism
66. Identity politics
67. Ideology
68. the Imaginary
69. Included/Excluded
70. infinity
71. Israel
72. James, Henry
73. Jews
74. jouissance
75. Kafka, Franz
76. Kant, Immanuel
77. Kierkegaard, Sören
78. Kieslowski, Krzystz
79. Lacan, Jacques
80. law and transgression
81. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
82. 'the letter arrives at its destination'
83. Lévi-Strauss, Claude
84. The Lives of Others
85. lord and bondsman
86. Mao Zedong
87. Marxism
88. Master Signifier
89. materialism
90. The Matrix
91. Meillassoux, Quentin
92. miracles
93. Möbius strip
94. nature
95. Nazism
96. negation of the negation
97. negativity
98. Nietzsche, Friedrich
99. 'night of the world'
100. Non-All
101. Object Oriented Ontology
102. objet petit a
103. October Revolution
104. Oedipus
105. ontology
106. Other
107. Plato
108. Political correctness
109. postmodernism
110. predestination
111. psychoanalysis
112. quantum physics
113. racism
114. Rancière, Jacques
115. the Real
116. The Reality of the Virtual
117. refugees
118. religion
119. retroactivity
120. Robespierre, Maximilien
121. Rumsfeld, Donald
122. Russian Revolution
123. Schelling, F. W. J.
124. Schindler's List
125. September 11
126. sexuality
127. sexual difference
128. Shakespeare, William
129. Sloterdijk, Peter
130. speculative judgement
131. The Science of Logic
132. Spielberg, Stephen
133. spirit, see Geist
134. 'spirit is a bone'
135. Stalinism
136. state
137. subject
138. subjectivity
139. sublation, see Aufhebung
140. superego
141. enjoyment
142. the symbolic order
143. Terminator
144. terrorism
145. Titanic
146. 300
147. 3.10 to Yuma
148. the Thing
149. The Ticklish Subject
150. thing-in-itself
151. the transcendental
152. totalitarianism
153. truth
154. the unconscious
155. universality
156. vanishing mediator
157. V for Vendetta
158. violence
159. Wagner
160. Wilde, Oscar
161. Wittgenstein, Ludwig
162. wokeness
163. Zizek, Slavoj
164. Zizek!
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350469006 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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