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Title: The Zizek Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Slavoj Zizek, Elizabeth Wright, Edmund Wright, Edmond Wright ISBN: 0-631-21201-9 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is an academic work!!! Please remember that!!!
Comment: It seems that time and time again when I happen to come across certain reviews, such as the one particular review here which was a scathing attack on this author and the text, I just roll my eyes in exasperation and do nothing about it. Well this was the last time! Slavoj Zizek is a shinning light in the world of critical academic discourse and is regarded by his peers and academics the world over (even those who don't agree with him)as being incredibly intelligent and very creative. If the text doesn't "mean" anything to you and it seems like an incomprehensible mess then i suggest you stick to material that is more in your league. Please remember that a layperson doesn't read a medical journal on oncology for the fun of it, nor does he/she spend hours deep in Fundamentals of Corporate Finance. A medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of cancer will probably read the former and an MBA or PHD business or accounting guru the latter. Therefore just because you can speak and read English please don't mistake this for a license to read, comprehend and comment on this type of academic text. To be perfectly honest this text is for someone with at least a graduate background in English Lit, Philosophy, Media Studies, Cultural studies etc. To actually comment with some authority on the text you should at least have a post-graduate degree such as a Masters or Doctorate. To put my argument in perspective; you wouldn't read a text on oncology and surgical procedures and comment on it unless you were a medical doctor and even more so, an oncologist. I think the person who would attack this kind of text would do likewise with Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Spivak....ohhhh jeez!!! imagine the field day they would have with Heidegger's "Being and Time".
Rating: 4
Summary: Errors.
Comment: The collection is very interesting, in that one gets a sense of Zizek's theoretical perspective and methodological tendencies across a range of texts. It also forces one to reconsider Lacan's work. Unfortunately, the book itself is riddled with typographical errors. The publisher should be thoroughly embarrassed by this.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent intellectual high!
Comment: Slavoj Zizek, one of the greatest minds of the late 20th century, is well repersented in this excellent collection of essays. His points of view on everything (women, philosophy, and culture) come through loud and clear. The integration of psychoanalytic, marxist, poststructural, and postmodern critiques is refreshing and his treatment of Lacan through examples from pop culture is particuraly wonderful as it aids those that are new to the subject matter (great teaching tool!). A must read for anyone that wants to get a closer look at the spectre of today's somewhat frightening culture.
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Title: The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0860919714 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 026274015X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0415969212 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 1859844219 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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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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