The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Lost highway (Motion picture) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Lost highway (Motion picture) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip Shaw |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134493193 |
Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.
Author | : Kelsey Wood |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1118269802 |
A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future Identifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding Explores Zizek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology
Author | : Russell Sbriglia |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822373386 |
Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Žižekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Žižek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek affirms Žižek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Žižekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Žižek
Author | : Martin Gayford |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780802137203 |
A collection of thoughts and ideas about art spanning thousands of years, from Pliny the Elder to Picasso.
Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780860919711 |
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj _i_ek 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. _i_ek 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.
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 713 |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107037476 |
Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
Author | : Todd McGowan |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231139557 |
Todd McGowan studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasise the odd nature of normality itself. In Lynch's movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a revolutionary relationship with the world.
Author | : Rex Butler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317324439 |
Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument – all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit much critical reaction. The Žižek Dictionary brings together leading Žižek commentators from across the world to present a companion and guide to Žižekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a key term and, crucially, explores its development across Žižek’s work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns. The dictionary will prove invaluable both to readers coming to Žižek for the first time and to those already embarked on the Žižekian journey.