Zizek and Communist Strategy
Title | Zizek and Communist Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | Chris McMillan |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013-10-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748655492 |
Communist, conservative, anti-semantic - Slavoj Zizek's work attracts a lot of labels, most of them pejorative. Chris McMillan seeks to identify Zizek's unique and productive contribution to social and political theory, constructing a response to the diff
Universality and Communist Strategy
Title | Universality and Communist Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | Chris McMillan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN |
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
Title | The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 2019-02-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1509536124 |
No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the ‘general intellect’. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing millions of people to participate in the new form of the ‘general intellect’ that they own and control. But, even if Marx’s analysis can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of global capitalism without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all its dimensions – the commons of nature, the cultural commons, and the commons as the universal space of humanity from which no one should be excluded – remains as relevant as ever. This timely reflection on the enduring relevance of The Communist Manifesto will be of great value to everyone interested in the key questions of radical politics today.
The Day After the Revolution
Title | The Day After the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1786636301 |
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original texts, Slavoj Žižek argues that his true greatness can be better grasped in the last two years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as the one at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated. As the anticipated world revolution receded into the distance, new paths had to be charted if the Soviet state was to survive. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, Žižek suggests that Lenin’s courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat unflinchingly. In today’s world, characterized by political turbulence, economic crises and geopolitical tensions, we should revisit Lenin’s combination of sober lucidity and revolutionary determination.
Surplus-Enjoyment
Title | Surplus-Enjoyment PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2022-08-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350226270 |
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?
The Idea of Communism
Title | The Idea of Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Costas Douzinas |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1789601878 |
Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You've had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it-time to get serious once again!-Slavoj Zizek Responding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persistent notion that, in a truly emancipated society, all things should be owned in common. This volume brings together their discussions on the philosophical and political import of the communist idea, highlighting both its continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a world marked by havoc and crisis.
Introducing Slavoj Zizek
Title | Introducing Slavoj Zizek PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Kul-Want |
Publisher | Icon Books Ltd |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2014-06-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 184831776X |
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.