The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology Hardcover - 1999

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Verso Books. New. 1999. Hardcover. 185984894X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 409 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: A Spectre Is Haunting Western Academia ... 1 * Pt. I The 'Night of the World' 7 * 1 The Deadlock of Transcendental Imagination, or, Martin Heidegger as a Reader of Kant 9 * 2 The Hegelian Ticklish Subject 70 * Pt. II The Split Universality 125 * 3 The Politics of Truth, or, Alain Badiou as a Reader of St. Paul 127 * 4 Political Subjectivization and Its Vicissitudes 171 * Pt. III From Subjection to Subjective Destitution 245 * 5 Passionate (Dis)Attachments, or, Judith Butler as a Reader of Freud 247 * 6 Whither Oedipus? 313 Index 401. -- -- DESCRIPTION: -- A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists _ all are united in their hostility to it. The Ticklish Subject seeks to undermine the common presupposition of all these critiques by posing a provocative question: what if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core which provides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics? In this new, long-awaited systematic exposition of the foundations of his theory, Slavoj Zizek explores this question through a detailed and rigorous confrontation with predominant contemporary notions of the subject: Heidegger's attempt to overcome subjectivity; the post-Althusserian elaborations of political subjectivity (Ernesto Laclau, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancire and Alain Badiou); deconstructionist feminism (Judith Butler); and the theories of second modernity and risk society (Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck). While philosophical in tenor and peppered with Zizek's characteristic witticisms, The Ticklish Subject is first and foremost an engaged political intervention, addressing the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and its ideological supplement, liberal-democratic multiculturalism. -- with a bonus offer-- .