Zizek and Communist Strategy : : On the Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism / / Chris McMillan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: McMillan, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Bliain Foilsithe: 2022
• Teanga: English
• Cur Síos Fisiciúil: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Marxism after the Discursive Turn --; 3 Jouissance and Politics --; 4 Universality and the Trauma of the Real --; 5 Žižek’s Capitalism: What Can Sexual Difference Tell Us about New Forms of Apartheid? --; 6 Žižek’s Realpolitics --; 7 The Communist Hypothesis: Žižekian Utopia or Utopian Fantasy? --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Achoimre: Žižek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics – this is how Žižek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that Žižek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences of Žižek's fundamental concepts, such as the Lacanian Real, universality and the communist hypothesis. He argues that Žižek's turn to Communism represents the ultimate significance of Žižek's work for the 21st century and a marked new direction for Žižekian theory.While Žižek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative - communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Chris McMillan identifies Žižek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing his work as a response to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalism.Key FeaturesSummarises key applications of psychoanalytic theory to politics and shared social lifeProduces a sustained reading of Žižek's understanding of the economy and capitalismContextualises Žižek's in relation to the difficulties of contemporary social theory and the political deadlock of global capitalismResponds to Žižek's recent reference to the communist hypothesis and 'egalitarian justice'
• Formáid: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748646654; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748646654
• Rochtain: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chris McMillan.

Žižek's communism: revolutionary terror or Utopian jouissance? Good theory; bad politics – this is how Žižek's works have been described. Now Chris McMillan argues that Žižek's reading of global capitalism could reinvent political subversion. He highlights the political consequences o...