TY - BOOK ID - 29000423 TI - The sublime object of ideology PY - 2008 SN - 9781844673001 9781844673018 9781844673025 1844673014 1844673022 1844673006 PB - London New York Verso DB - UniCat KW - Ideology KW - 157.9 KW - Zizek, Slavoj KW - ideologie KW - 905.2 KW - psychoanalyse KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Philosophy KW - Political science KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - geschiedenis der wijsbegeerte, 1900-heden, overige afzonderlijke stelsels KW - cultuurfilosofie, -psychologie en -sociologie KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Sociology of culture KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Ideologi. KW - Ideologie. KW - Ideologier. KW - Ideology. KW - Psychology and philosophy. KW - Culture KW - Social sciences KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29000423 AB - In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author's acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. Zizek takes issue with analysts of the postmodern condition from Habermas to Sloterdijk, showing that the idea of a 'post-ideological' world ignores the fact that 'even if we do not take things seriously, we are still doing them'. Rejecting postmodernism's unified world of surfaces, he traces a line of thought from Hegel to Althusser and Lacan, in which the human subject is split, divided by a deep antagonism which determines social reality and through which ideology operates. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control. In so doing, The Sublime Object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology, as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (June 18, 2012.). ER -