Zizek and Heidegger: The Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism

by Thomas Brockelman

Overview

Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. Thomas Brockelman argues that Žižek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an immanent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis. Brockelman also finds limitations in Žižek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's techno-phobia. Brockelman's critique of Žižek departs from this ambivalence - a fundamental tension in Žižek's work between a historicist critical theory of techno-capitalism and an anti-historicist theory of revolutionary change. In addition to clarifying what Žižek has to say about our world and about the possibility of radical change in it, Žižek and Heidegger explores the various ways in which this split at the center of his thought appears within it - in Žižek's views on history or on the relationship between the revolutionary leader and the proletariat or between the analyst and the analysand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441135872
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/03/2011
Series:	Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Thomas Brockelman is Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College, USA. His previous publications include The Frame and the Mirror: On Collage and the Postmodern (Northwestern University Press, 2001).
Thomas Brockelman is Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College, USA. His previous publications include The Frame and the Mirror: On Collage and the Postmodern (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface: Le Style Zizek and the Question of Finitude Part I: Zizek and Heidegger: The Alpha and the Omega 1. Thinking, Finitely: Zizek on Heidegger on Finitude 2. Zizek and the Other Heidegger: Technology and Danger Part II: Slowing Zizek Down: Modernity and Techno-Capitalism 3. Missing the Point: Slavoj Zizek on Perspective, Modernity and Subjectivity 4. The Techno-Capitalist Danger: Ideology and Contemporary Society Part III: The Split Subject of History 5. Splitting History: Zizek on Utopia and Revolution 6. The Pervert and the Philosopher (as witnessed by) the Theologian and the Analyst Bibliography