The Subject of Liberation: Zizek, Politics, Psychoanalysis

by Charles Wells

Book Overview

The book shares Zizek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist thought is divided by antagonism between a Marxist revolutionary politics founded on Enlightenment philosophy and a politics of identity founded on post-modern post-structuralism.

How Zizek used Lacan's theory of character structures is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501317318
• ISBN13: 9781501317316
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"