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Architecture and Revolution

by Neil Leach

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
ISBN 13: 1134771649
Page : 256 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (716 users)

Download PDF or read online Architecture and Revolution Book by Neil Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma of association with previous regimes. Contributors include: Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Laura Mulvey, Helene Cixous, Andrew Benjamin and Frederic Jameson.

The End of Dissatisfaction?

by Todd McGowan

Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
ISBN 13: 9780791459683
Page : 252 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (83 users)

Download PDF or read online The End of Dissatisfaction? Book by Todd McGowan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

The End of Love

by Eva Illouz

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-09-15
ISBN 13: 1509550267
Page : 320 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (52 users)

Download PDF or read online The End of Love Book by Eva Illouz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indifferent, or when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or even a few hours before. In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. She argues that if modern love was once marked by the freedom to enter sexual and emotional bonds according to one’s will and choice, contemporary love has now become characterized by practices of non-choice, the freedom to withdraw from relationships. Illouz dubs this process by which relationships fade, evaporate, dissolve, and break down “unloving.” While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, The End of Love makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve. Particularly striking is the role that capitalism plays in practices of non-choice and “unloving.” The unmaking of social bonds, she argues, is connected to contemporary capitalism which is characterized by practices of non-commitment and non-choice, practices that enable the quick withdrawal from a transaction and the quick realignment of prices and the breaking of loyalties. Unloving and non-choice have in turn a profound impact on society and economics as they explain why people may be having fewer children, increasingly living alone, and having less sex. The End of Love presents a profound and original analysis of the effects of capitalism and consumer culture on personal relationships and of what the dissolution of personal relationships means for capitalism.

The Ticklish Subject

by Slavoj Žižek

Publisher : Verso Books
Release Date : 2009-01-05
ISBN 13: 1789604397
Page : 599 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (43 users)

Download PDF or read online The Ticklish Subject Book by Slavoj Žižek and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes—all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. His recent films The Pervert’s Guide to the Cinema and Žižek! reveal a theorist at the peak of his powers and a skilled communicator. Now Verso is making his classic titles, each of which stand as a core of his ever-expanding life’s work, available as new editions. Each is beautifully re-packaged, including new introductions from Žižek himself. Simply put, they are the essential texts for understanding Žižek’s thought and thus cornerstones of contemporary philosophy. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology: A specter is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject. In this book Slavoj Žižek unearths a subversive core to this elusive specter, and finds within it the indispensable philosophical point of reference for any genuinely emancipatory project.

Radical Evil

by Joan Copjec

Publisher : Verso
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 13: 9781859849118
Page : 248 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (13 users)

Download PDF or read online Radical Evil Book by Joan Copjec and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Radical Evil, the second volume in the S series, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Kant’s Religion without the Limits of Reason Alone, where Kant first proposed, and quickly withdrew in horror, the concept of radical evil—an evil at the very heart of the ethical problematic. It also marks the recent publication in English of Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis, arguably one of the most important and influential of Lacan’s seminars, in which he discusses the rise since the nineteenth century of a certain ‘happiness in evil’. The events of the twentieth century have made the assertions of both Lacan and Kant credible and concrete—the Holocaust and the attempts to cast doubt on its existence, the rise of racism worldwide, the engagement by philosophers with ethics as critical to relevant issues but without the consideration of the problems which lead Kant to his formation of radical evil. The contributors to this volume were asked to consider radical evil in its philosophical, political and cultural dimensions. What emerges is a clear introduction to the problematic, including discussions of the Holocaust, the placement of homosexuals in concentration camps, the creation of the Machiavellian in politics and literature—a full and fascinating exploration of the radical nature of modern evil.

Authorships Wake

by Philip Sayers

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-12-10
ISBN 13: 1501367684
Page : 224 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (676 users)

Download PDF or read online Authorships Wake Book by Philip Sayers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Authorship's Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes's essay, The Death of the Author. This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did, or whose intellectual formation took place in its immediate aftermath. These writers include some who are known primarily as theorists (Judith Butler), others known primarily as novelists (Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace), and yet others whose texts are difficult to categorize (the autofiction of Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner; the autotheory of Maggie Nelson). These writers share not only a central motivating question how to move beyond the critique of the author-subject but also a way of answering it: by writing texts that merge theoretical concerns with literary discourse. Authorship's Wake traces the responses their work offers in relation to four themes: communication, intention, agency, and labor.

Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics

by Thomas Betteridge

Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 13: 9781902806402
Page : 228 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (9 users)

Download PDF or read online Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics Book by Thomas Betteridge and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Why read Shakespeare? This work draws extensively on the work of Slavoj UZiUzek and other contemporary thinkers to discover the truths of Shakespeare's drama and relate them to contemporary issues within the discipline of English literature."

After Yugoslavia

by R. Hudson

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-22
ISBN 13: 023030513X
Page : 264 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (51 users)

Download PDF or read online After Yugoslavia Book by R. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : An investigation of recent developments and trends within the Yugoslav successor states since the signing of the Dayton Agreements in Autumn 1995. This book offers a distinctive and desirable perspective on the seven successor states, their cultures, politics and identities by providing an internal perspective on the region and its developments.

Feministische Philosophie in europäischem Kontext

by Ivanka Raĭnova

Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 13: 9783205784982
Page : 280 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (87 users)

Download PDF or read online Feministische Philosophie in europäischem Kontext Book by Ivanka Raĭnova and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Das Buch stellt die erste monographische Untersuchung dar, die sowohl den Stand der feministischen Philosophie in den postkommunistischen Ländern als auch die Probleme des Dialogs zwischen 'Ost-' und 'Westfeministinnen' im Bereich der philosophischen Genderforschung analysiert. Ist die feministische Philosophie ein 'amerikanisches' oder ein 'europäisches' Produkt? Gab es feministische Theorien in 'Osteuropa' vor 1989 oder wurde der Feminismus erst nach der Wende 'entdeckt'? Wieso gibt es dort heute so viele Frauenorganisationen, jedoch keine Frauenbewegungen? Die Autorin versucht auf diese Fragen eine Antwort zu geben und präsentiert zudem durch Gespräche und Interviews mit namhaften europäischen Philosophinnen verschiedene Erfahrungen und Zugangsweisen.

Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

by Victor E. Taylor

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2002-06-01
ISBN 13: 1134743092
Page : 480 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (43 users)

Download PDF or read online Encyclopedia of Postmodernism Book by Victor E. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research agendas and general interests in contemporary cultural, historical, literary and philosophical issues. Since its inception in the 1960s, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that many scholars would argue defines our era. Postmodernism, in its various configurations, has consistently challenged concepts of selfhood, knowledge formation, aesthetics, ethics, history and politics. This Encyclopedia offers a wide-range of perspectives on postmodernism that illustrates the plurality of this critical concept that is so much part of our current intellectual debates. In this regard, the volume does not adhere to a single definition of postmodernism as much as it documents the use of the term across a variety of academic and cultural pursuits. The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, it must be noted, resists simply presenting postmodernism as a new style among many styles occuring in the post-disciplinary academy. Documenting the use of the term acknowledges that postmodernism has a much deeper and long-lasting effect on academic and cultural life. In general, the volume rests on the understanding that postmodernism is not so much a style as it is an on-going process, a process of both disintegration and reformation.

Performing the East

by Amy Bryzgel

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-30
ISBN 13: 0857733729
Page : 320 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (337 users)

Download PDF or read online Performing the East Book by Amy Bryzgel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought or sold. But what are the roots of performance art in Eastern Europe and Russia, where there was no real art market to speak of? While many artworks created in the 'East' may resemble Western performance art practices, their origins, as well as their meaning and significance, is decidedly different. By placing specific performances from Russia, Latvia and Poland from the late- and post-communist periods within a local and international context, this book pinpoints the nuances between performance art East and West. Performance art in Eastern Europe is examined for the first time as agent and chronicle of the transition from Soviet and satellite states to free-market democracies. Drawing upon previously unpublished sources and exclusive interviews with the artists themselves, Amy Bryzgel explores the actions of the period, from Miervaldis Polis's Bronze Man to Oleg Kulik's Russian Dog performances. Bryzgel demonstrates that in the late-1980s and early 1990s, performance art in Eastern Europe went beyond the modernist critique to express ideas outside the official discourse, shocking and empowering the citizenry, both effecting and mirroring the social changes taking place at the time. Performing the East opens the way to an urgent reassessment of the history, function and meaning of performance art practices in East-Central Europe.

Jacques Lacan

by Slavoj Žižek

Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13: 9780415278621
Page : 300 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (27 users)

Download PDF or read online Jacques Lacan Book by Slavoj Žižek and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Jacques Lacan (1901-1980) is undoubtedly the central figure of psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. The texts selected here present the entire scope of the Lacan debate.

Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging

by Nick Rumens

Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2007-01
ISBN 13: 9042022396
Page : 274 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (223 users)

Download PDF or read online Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging Book by Nick Rumens and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.

The Dialectical Path of Law

by Charles Lincoln

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-10-13
ISBN 13: 179363226X
Page : 285 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (322 users)

Download PDF or read online The Dialectical Path of Law Book by Charles Lincoln and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The Dialectical Path of Law discusses the origin of law leading to the development of advanced corporate law intertwined with the formation of technical tax rules. Lincoln explores the recent developments of the OECD and United States tax rules within a hardly discussed context in legal academia - the Hegelian dialectic.

Enjoying What We Don't Have

by Todd McGowan

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-03-01
ISBN 13: 1496210522
Page : 364 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (15 users)

Download PDF or read online Enjoying What We Don't Have Book by Todd McGowan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century. Where others seeking the political import of psychoanalysis have looked to Freud's early work on sexuality, McGowan focuses on Freud's discovery of the death drive and Jacques Lacan's elaboration of this concept. He argues that the self-destruction occurring as a result of the death drive is the foundational act of emancipation around which we should construct our political philosophy. Psychoanalysis offers the possibility for thinking about emancipation not as an act of overcoming loss but as the embrace of loss. It is only through the embrace of loss, McGowan suggests, that we find the path to enjoyment, and enjoyment is the determinative factor in all political struggles--and only in a political project that embraces the centrality of loss will we find a viable alternative to global capitalism.

Liberalism at Its Limits

by Ileana Rodríguez

Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13: 0822973537
Page : 251 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (735 users)

Download PDF or read online Liberalism at Its Limits Book by Ileana Rodríguez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants.

Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2015-09-01
ISBN 13: 9004304401
Page : 359 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (44 users)

Download PDF or read online Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction Book by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Sound Effects collects original articles on English and American prose fiction which analyse vocal phenomena by using the psychoanalytic concept of the object voice – introduced by J. Lacan and theorised by M. Dolar – as their interpretative tool.