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Original Title:	The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
ISBN:	1859842917 (ISBN13: 9781859842911)
Edition Language:	English

The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

Slavoj Žižek

Paperback | Pages: 408 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 698 Users | 23 Reviews

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Highly recommended. I think I'll add my voice to the chorus calling it Zizek's masterpiece. Grade-A philosophical highs, plus much cultural and political commentary that has stayed germane.

The Event is thus the Void of an invisible line separating one closure from another: prior to it, the Situation was closed; that is, from within it horizon, (what will become) the Event necessarily appears as skandalon, as an undecidable, chaotic intrusion that has no place in the state of the Situation... once the Event takes place and is assumed as such, the very previous Situation appears as undecidable Chaos. - pp 159

I do believe this book, published in 1999, predates Zizek the international celebrity phenomenon. The style here is relatively restrained compared to his later clown show. Yet there are still moments that are laugh out loud funny.

At the same time, reading it now, it dawns on me that he's actually been serious as a heart attack all along. The question runs through his oevure of how it's possible to commit to an authentic emancipatory project in a culture as thoroughly cynical as our own. The fact that he often revels in the stupidities of postmodern capitalism is actually a mark of how seriously he takes his problem.

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Zizek on Lacan

The master speaks
who is the master?

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Title	:	The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
Author	:	Slavoj Žižek
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2000 by Verso (first published January 1st 1997)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Politics. Theory. Nonfiction. Psychology. Psychoanalysis

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as always, Zizek knows exactly what he's talking about, but seems to have no reason why he's talking about it. 90% gibberish, occasional nuggets of odd-shaped truth.

I did it! I finished it! At times a Lacanian tour through continental philosophy, and at other times an Adornian critique of our so called "predicaments" of Late Capitalism.

Below are summaries of the book's chapters. If any of the summaries are appealing, read the book. Otherwise, do not. Zizek's theory of the subject amounts to him theorizing all over the place...1) looking at Kant's concept of "transcendental imagination" through Heidegger's reading of Kant. He argues that the "transcendental imagination," the source of creativity, is also something terrifying - a sort of madness constitutive of the subject. See: Jacques Derrida's "Cogito and the History of

Zizek is masterful in this book. I think it's his best work, and more accessible than Sublime Object of Ideology. It starts with a reading of Heidegger's Being and Time, the passage between "thrown projection" of the individual Dasein who achieves an authentic mode of being, freely choosing his fate, leading to a community of people which collectivly assume their historical destiny (create their lives). Zizek states that Heidegger is at his best when he explores the opposition between modern

One of the bigger Zizek works and one of his more theoretical. Zizek tends to waver between huge works that set out his main theses and give a summary of what he's been up to and where he's going (Ticklish Subject, Parallax View, In Defence of Lost Causes) even if he changes his mind the week after, or short burtsts where his ideas are applied (Enjoy Your Symptom! First As Tragedy Then As Farce, Violence). This is one of the big buggers and although regular readers will have seen much of this

I'm rereading different Philosophers right now so I can get a clearer perspective on what Zizek is getting at. I am taking out my notes on Kant, Heidegger and Kierkegaard, Hegel etc. I enjoyed his introduction to Lacan, but I'll need to gain more clarity on his views pertaining to critical theory and existentialism in order to decipher some of his more difficult passages. A ticklish subject indeed- but very interesting! Brilliant guy.

This is my second time reading this book. After reading Less than Nothing I see that in this earlier book, Zizek is still Zizek, but he makes more leaps of logic. He isn't as refined in his thinking but he is still trying to say the same kind of thing. After some reflection, it's apparent that he seeks to reify the manner by which the subject both occupies the agent field and is determined by it. To this end, Zizek attempts to establish the parameters by which agency of the subject can be