Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis - Lectures. HEGEL (3 credits) Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D. Description: This course is an irreverent rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophers of all time; pronounced the first Post-Marxist, Hegel’s dialectics are considered as a systematic notation of the failures of all conceptual reconciliations. Hegel is fundamental to any student studying contemporary philosophy. This course will move within and beyond Hegel's theoretical foundations into the hottest academic debates of today.
Objectives: Students shall become familiar with Hegel and his influence on contemporary philosophical debates. Learning Outcomes: Students will have learned to incorporate the work of Hegel and Zizek into their dissertation projects. Required Readings and Assignments: Žižek, Slavoj. Žižek, Slavoj. Žižek, Slavoj. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich and Stephen Houlgate (Editor). Recommended Readings and Assignments: Hegel, Georg and A. Žižek, Slavoj. Žižek, Slavoj, John Milbank and Creston Davis (Editor). Course Outline: The dignity of the feminine in Islam: Against Zizek's Orientalism – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics. Just when we thought it had finally breathed its last, that it had been given its funeral rites and properly buried in the graveyard of yellowing history books, Orientalism - that Western imaginative construction of the East, which intellectually underwrote the colonialist projects of the great European powers - is resurrected once again to distort Islam into a mirror for the Western gaze.
Orientalism influenced great thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Jung, Nietzsche, Weber and Geertz - and yet the way they invoke Islam tells us much more about European angst than it reveals deeper truths about the youngest of the Semitic faiths. One of the most glaring distortions of Orientalism, discussed by Meyda Yegenoglu in her Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, is how the Orient is itself feminised and penetrated by the Western observer.
This is not to say that feminism has no place in the Muslim world - far from it. God is transcendent and without gender. Abercrombie & Zizek. In the throes of late capitalism—or whatever—artists and philosophers have to remain utterly pragmatic about their prospective collaborators. A patron may have been enough in the Renaissance, but 21st century creativity needs 21st century funding: Call in the retailers! The New Yorker has rediscovered a 2003 Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue; in it, the editorial team invited critical theorist Slavoj Zizek to comment on the photos they had prepared. Take a look: (From The New Yorker, via Critical Theory) The Feud Continues: Noam Chomsky Responds to Žižek, Describes Remarks as 'Sheer Fantasy' - Open Culture. ZIZEK EXPLAINED TO A YOUNG GIRL: DOUGLAS LAIN AND HIS DAUGHTER EMMA | AGENT SWARM. Contrary to Chomsky’s expressed opinion, Continental Philosophy can be explained in terms comprehensible to a 12-year-old.
The idea that it cannot is an empirical claim and we are fortunate to have a falsifyng instance. In this video Douglas Lain explains Zizek’s theory of ideology to his daughter (I am not sure of her age in the video, but it must be close to the age-group intended by Chomsky): and here he explains Althusser’s concept of the Ideological State Apparatus to her: In these videos we see that Zizek can be explained in simple terms, and that the theory goes beyond this explanation: Chomsky’s challenge was to demonstrate that Zizek ‘s theories went “beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old”. Like this: Like Loading... Slavoj Zizek. Vol 7, No 4 (2013) Memezizek (May 2014) Page Not Found. Slavoj Zizek should stop clowning around with communist concepts. Worst of all worlds: late capitalist materialism and the unending cycles of Slavoj Žižek.
Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism Slavoj ŽižekVerso, 444pp, £20 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of CapitalismSlavoj ŽižekAllen Lane, 240pp, £16.99 Towards the end of Slavoj Žižek’s Trouble in Paradise, a provocative diagnosis of the malaise of liberal capitalism, the philosopher and cultural theorist offers a conception of the authentic radical. Such a figure, he writes, is less a creative genius than “an apostle who just embodies and delivers a truth – he just goes on and on repeating the same message . . . and although it may appear that nobody follows him, everyone believes him”. Those familiar with Žižek as a writer and speaker may find it hard not to hear a hint of ironic self-portraiture in this image of the compulsively repetitious apostle.
There is an echo here also of the figure of the “undead”, one of Žižek’s abiding preoccupations. However, to take Žižek to task for plagiarising himself may be missing the point. Slavoj Žižek on Greece. Slavoj Žižek: Radical Politics Today - Teachings of Hegel. Slavoj Zizek – A reply to my critics. Event Date: 28 February 2013 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Square London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents: Slavoj Zizek – A reply to my critics Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some of them do at least raise pertinent questions : which, exactly, is the status of violence in social life, and how can one justify resort to it? Is in our societies a radical social change – not just a revolt but the imposition of a new order – objectively possible? What is materialism today, beyond the usual versions of deconstructionist discursive materialism, Deleuzian “new materialism,” and scientific naturalism?
And, last but not least, what immanent role do jokes play in theory? Talk: download Audience questions chaired by Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck): download Copy the code below to your web site. VersoBooks.com. "This was madness": Slavoj Žižek vs David Horowitz with Julian Assange By Huw Lemmey / 27 April 2012 It was bound to end in disaster: two ideologues, one a communist and the other a neo-conservative, "do battle" over a skype link from a house in England where Assange is held under house arrest. "You are a supporter of the closest thing we have to Nazism, which was a utopian idea, in the Middle-East! You support the Palestinians! " rails Horowitz in his opening statement. "Europe is a cultural theme park. His choicest morsels of opprobrium are reserved for Obama, however: "You've got a leftist in the White House, a guy who was brought up and trained by communists, whose whole political career was in the communist left".
Horowitz: "The United States is crippled in part because the Commander-in-Chief is a leftist! " Žižek: "Here I respectfully disagree... if the United States still have a certain attraction and so on to the world, it is because of people like Obama! " Slavoj Zizek on "Screening Thought" Slavoj Zizek "To Be Brutally Frank" Slavoj Zizek Funny Discussion (2014) "Reflections on Violence" Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil. Slavoj Zizek. A centralized location for your leftist literature. Slavoj Zizek - Enjoy Your Symptom-Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out.