Sean Homer

Slavoj Zizek and Radical Politics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Sean Homer addresses Slavoj Zizek's work in a specific political conjuncture, his political interventions in the Balkans. The charge of inconsistency and contradiction is frequently levelled at Zizek's politics, a charge he openly embraces in the name of "pragmatism." Homer argues that his interventions in the Balkans expose the dangers of this pragmatism for the renewal of the Leftist politics that he calls for. The book assesses Zizek's political interventions in so far as they advance his self-proclaimed "ruthlessly radical" aims about changing the world. Homer argues the Balkans can be seen as Zizek's symptom, that element which does not fit into the system, but speaks its truth and reveals what the system cannot acknowledge about itself.

In Part II Homer explores Zizek's radicalism through his critique of Alain Badiou, arguing that Badiou's "affirmationism" provides a firmer grounding for the renewal of the left than Zizek's negative gesture analyzed in Part I. What distinguishes Zizek from the majority of the contemporary Left today is his valorization of violence; Homer tackles this issue head-on in relation to political violence in Greece. Finally, Homer defends the utopian impulse on the radical left against its Lacanian critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317243717
• Artikelnr.: 45093046

Autorenporträt

Sean Homer is Professor of Film and Literature at the American University in Bulgaria.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: iek in the Balkans
Introduction: The Case of Kosovo
1. It's the Political Economy, Stupid! On iek's Marxism.
2. Nationalism, Ideology and Balkan Cinema.
3. To Begin at the Beginning Again: iek in the Former Yugoslavia.
Part II: Radicalising iek
Introduction: Thinking Through iek and Beyond
4. The Politics of Comradeship: Philosophical Construction and Commitment
in Alain Badiou and Slavoj iek.
5. On "The Critique of Violence" and Revolutionary Suicide.
Conclusion: Resources of Hope: A Critique of Lacanian Anti-Utopianism.