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Title: Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0-415-96921-2 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: An Attack on Deleuze or on Zizek's Idea of "Deleuze"
Comment: One wonders when reading this book whether Zizek is even making specific reference to Deleuze's work. He seems more to be writing from an idea he has in his head of Deleuzian's, Deleuze's followers. Having given Zizek a lot of attention in previous books, if only to have an understanding of what his contribution to things like Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Film and Critical theory might be, I have grown quite tired of his shooting from the hip/writing for the agrandissement of his ego. His desire to associate Deleuze with Hegel is just about as helpful to a reader as Badiou's attempt to make Deleuze a Heiddegerian. It just doesn't work. Especially from the perspective of those who know the breadth of Deleuze's work good enough to decipher the sheer irrelevance and sheer idiocy at times of Zizek's desire to be provocative. I can honestly say that this book helped me zero percent in appreciating either Zizek's originality nor the thought of Deleuze. Big Thumbs Down!
Rating: 3
Summary: Haven't Read the Book Yet
Comment: Question (with A Bit of Background) After reading through 1000 PLateaus and such and Delanda's interpretation Of Deleuze and Guattari, do you folks ever get "scared" that The BwO is just some reified Geist made to do perverse sodomite things and that Deleuze is on his way to becoming the 21 century Hegel? MY GOD!! What will Deleuze's Marx Be Like!?
I will check this book out, bad Reviews or no
Rating: 1
Summary: Anti-Deleuze
Comment: Even if you like Zizek (which I do), this book is a disaster. Don't waste your time. I was hoping to see Slavoj sneek into "enemy" territory and offer some of his "rock-star of theory" antics about Deleuze since he mentions him so often in his other works -- usually referencing Coldness and Cruelty or The Logic of Sense, but this book is almost chemically-free of Delueze (a thinker of the first-rate whom I quite admire). The book is a hodge-podge of recylced writings (something Zizek is becoming quite comfortable with the more he writes). Deleuze is barely mentioned and often when he is Zizek is often simply wrong about his "take" on him. Most of the time Zizek is just spouting off (and it's not even the inspired kind of spouting that got him famous!) If you want to read something fun by Zizek read Enjoy Your Symptom or Looking Awry; if you want something more substantial read They Know Not What They Do, The Sublime Object of Ideology, or even The Ticklish Subject. If you want to learn about Deleuze read Deleuze: A Critical Reader, Gilles Deleuze by John Marks or Michael Hardt, for a more slanted but engaging encounter perhaps Badiou's Clamour of Being -- but better yet just try reading some of Deleuze's books: they are wonderful, and Dialogues or Pure Immanence are easy books to begin with. I couldn't agree more with the review Eric made below. Looking for Deleuze in this text is like trying to find grapes and nuts in grapenuts: tedious and an utter waste of time.
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Title: The Puppet and the Dwarf : The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0262740257 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 12 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-1974) by Gilles Deleuze, Mike Taormina ISBN: 1584350180 Publisher: Semiotext Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Shortest Shadow : Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two by Alenka Zupancic ISBN: 0262740265 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 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 Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Conversations With Zizek (Conversations) by Slavoj Zizek, Glyn Daly ISBN: 0745628974 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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