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= WHY ŽIŽEK?=When ŽižeA shudders (we don't have to): popular == Popular culture and philosophy? ==
Is this not the way to read Žižek?
Subject of a biography: biography of a subject
This book
= KEY IDEAS=== Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work?==
ŽižeA's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis
Hegel
Marx
Lacan
The IrnaginaryImaginary
The Symbolic
The Real
The philosopher of the Real
== What is a subject and why is it so important?==
The cogito
The cogito and the post-structuralists
== What is so terrible about postmodernity
The postmodern risk society
The disintegration of the big Other
== How can we distinguish reality from ideology?
False consciousness and cynicism
Belief machines
== What is the relationship between men and women?
The formulae of sexuation
'Woman does not exist'
== Why is racism always a fantasy?
'Che vuoi?': 'What do you want from rne?'
LooAing through the fantasy window
= AFTER ŽIŽEK=
The curse of Jacques: limitations on the influence of Žižek
Leftism
Universal criticism
The retroactive ŽižeA