Lacan: The Silent Partners (Wo Es War)

@book{citeulike:2791395, abstract = {{<B>The giant of Ljubljana marshals some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of Jacques Lacan.</B><BR><BR>It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned by Lacan, which influenced his thinking, and is crucial to its proper understanding? Zizek focuses on Lacan's "silent partners," those who provide a key to Lacanian theory, discussing his work in relation to the Pre-Socratics, Diderot, Hegel, Nietzsche, H\"{o}lderlin, Wagner, Turgenev, Kafka, Henry James, Artaud and Kiarostami.<BR><BR>As Zizek says, "The ultimate aim of the present volume is to instigate a new wave of Lacanian paranoia: to push readers to engage in the work of their own and start to discern Lacanian motifs everywhere, from politics to trash culture, from obscure ancient philosophers to contemporary Iranian filmmakers."<BR><BR>Contributors include Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Joan Copjec, Mladen Dolar, Fredric Jameson, Silvia Ons, and Alenka Zupancic.}}, author = {Zizek, Slavoj }, citeulike-article-id = {2791395}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1844675491}, keywords = {art, hegel, kant, lacan, literature, nietzsche, philosophy, schelling, zizek}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2008-05-13 00:13:11}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Verso}, title = {Lacan: The Silent Partners (Wo Es War)}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/1844675491}, year = {2006} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2791395 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2791395 TI - Lacan: The Silent Partners (Wo Es War) PB - Verso SN - 1844675491 N2 - {<B>The giant of Ljubljana marshals some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of Jacques Lacan.</B><BR><BR>It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned by Lacan, which influenced his thinking, and is crucial to its proper understanding? Zizek focuses on Lacan's "silent partners," those who provide a key to Lacanian theory, discussing his work in relation to the Pre-Socratics, Diderot, Hegel, Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Wagner, Turgenev, Kafka, Henry James, Artaud and Kiarostami.<BR><BR>As Zizek says, "The ultimate aim of the present volume is to instigate a new wave of Lacanian paranoia: to push readers to engage in the work of their own and start to discern Lacanian motifs everywhere, from politics to trash culture, from obscure ancient philosophers to contemporary Iranian filmmakers."<BR><BR>Contributors include Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Joan Copjec, Mladen Dolar, Fredric Jameson, Silvia Ons, and Alenka Zupancic.} KW - art KW - hegel KW - kant KW - lacan KW - literature KW - nietzsche KW - philosophy KW - schelling KW - zizek AU - Zizek, Slavoj PY - 2006/04/15/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/1844675491 ER -