Početi iz početka

by Slavoj Žižek

Žižek je jedan od retkih autora koji može da predstavi trivijalne, banalne pojmovena netrivijalan način, da ih poveženajjasnije i razumljivo s najzamršenijim spekulativnim filozofskim i psihoanalitičkim problemima. Sve za temeljni cilj: zbuniti, šokirati čitaoca, poljuljati njegova čvrsta uverenja i predrasude, usmeriti ga datraži vlastite odgovore na već postavljena i na nepostavljena pitanja.

„Ako Platon danas postoji, onda je on ateističan materijalista i odaziva se na ime Slavoj Žižek.“

Knjiga izabranih tekstova donosi osnovni pogled na Žižekovu percepciju društvenog i političkog, Žižekovu samokritiku, pogled na delovanje ideologije danas, izbor iz njegovog eseja o Lenjinu i tekst u kom određuje šta danas znači „početi iz početka“. Namera ovog užeg izbora tekstova Slavoja Žižeka jeste da čitaocu ponudi crvenu nit kroz lavirint njegovih eseja koji se odnose na analizu društva i savremenog funkcionisanja društvene veze, s posebnim naglaskom na analizu ideologije.

Njegovo glavno oružje i snaga je njegov stil: mešavina psihoanalize Žaka Lakana, filozofije, svakodnevne patologije, brojnih primera iz književnosti, filma, klasične muzike, politike, sporta, fizike, popularne nauke. I pre svega šale.

Genres: Philosophy

242 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."