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Title: The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits) by Alenka Zupancic ISBN: 0-262-74026-5 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Get into Nietzsche again for the first time
Comment: This is an exciting study, that will be striking in its insights even to those who thought that they got Nietzsche long ago. What Zupancic's book brings out for me is the feeling of reading Nietzsche for the first time... while its not that her insights are shockingly new, its more that they seem shockingly not new at all, that she is alas bringing out the "real" Nietzschean insights that you maybe felt but never articulated. This book also makes nice use and comparison of the works of Weber, Lacan and Badiou among others, but in much more enlightening ways than a lot of other recent scholarship.
And its readable without having a PhD background in the stuff.
Rating: 4
Summary: Untimely Meditation
Comment: Alenka Zupancic is a researcher at the Institute Of Philosophy in Ljubjana: Zizek's old stomping grounds, and there are some similarities in her work with his, particularly with her anti-postmodern Lacanianism. However, though her writing is less flashy than Zizek, her thinking is just as exhilarating. It's tough these days to approach Nietzsche's work freshly. He has been mined as much as any philosophical figure in recent memory. There doesn't seem much ore left in those shafts. but this book finds some valuable nuggets. "The Shortest Shadow" attempts to reconsider two aspesct of Nietzche's thought The Death of God and the idea of "noon" (the time when shadows are shortest). Zupancic is an excellent reader and gives us much to consider. She stays close to her texts; and though she can be a bit difficult at times, she neither loses her focus nor ceases to be provocative. It is a book that in many ways (though is scope is much more narrow) that is almost as suggestive as Deleuze's "Nietzsche and Philosophy" -- which is high praise indeed. It is a somwhat less satisfying work than "Ethics of the Real" but is it about half the length of her first book. Is is a good book nevertheless. However, it is not a good book for an introduction into Nietzsche's thought, for that try Kaufmann's "Nietzsche: Philosophy, Psychologist, Antichrist" or Safranski "Nietzsche: A Critical Biography". Or, as I always suggest, try the primary source -- Kaufmann's "Portable Nietzsche" or "Thus Spake Zarathustra" are excellent entry points into the work of one of the greatest thinkers in philosophy.
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Title: Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0415969212 Publisher: Roultledge Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0262740257 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Alain Badiou, Ray Brassier ISBN: 0804744718 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou, Justin Clemens, Oliver Feltham ISBN: 0826467245 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (Wo Es War) by Alenka Zupancic ISBN: 1859842186 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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