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Slavoj Žižek Bibliography
The philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek is a prolific writer who has published in numerous languages. Books English As co-author, editor, etc. Slovenian Spanish * 2007 ''En defensa de la intolerancia'', Madrid: Sequitur. Croatian * 2008 ''Pervertitov vodič kroz film'', Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo pisaca & Izdanja Antibarbarus (Biblioteka Tvrđa), edited by Srećko Horvat. ("The Pervert's Guide to Cinema", collected essays on cinema) * 2015 ''Islam, Ateizam i Modernost: Neka Bogohulna Razmisljanja'', Academic Book ("Islam, Atheism and Modernity: Some Blasphemous Thinking") Articles English French German Basque Ukrainian "ПОЧАТИ СПОЧАТКУ Славой ЖИЖЕК". ''New Left Review,'' nr. 57, pp. 43–55. May 8, 2009. Greek "ENANTION TΩN ANΘΡΩΠΙΝΩΝ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑΤΩΝ". ''New Left Review,'' nr. 34, pp. 115–131. July xx, 2005. Portuguese "A visāo em paralaxe". ''New Left Review,'' nr. 25, pp. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's ''The Sublime Object of Ideology'', his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. The idiosyncratic style of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Washington Press
The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house. The organization is a division of the University of Washington, based in Seattle. Although the division functions autonomously, they have worked to assist the university's efforts in support of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education. Since 1915, they have published the works of first-time writers, including students, poets, and artists, along with authors known throughout the world for their work in the humanities, arts, and sciences. While the day-to-day functions of the organization are carried out independent of the university, the imprint itself is managed by a committee of faculty members, who have been appointed by the university president. Each manuscript must go through a collaborative approval process overseen by the editors and the University Press Committee before b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force. Biography Badiou is the son of the mathematician (1905–1996), who was a working member of the Resistance in France during World War II. Alain Badiou was a student at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and then the École Normale Supérieure (1955–1960). In 1960, he wrote his ' (roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Spinoza for Georges Canguilhem (the topic was "Demonstrative Stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, social work, sociology, religion, film, and international studies. History Founded in May 1893, In 1933 the first four volumes of the ''History of the State of New York'' were published. In early 1940s revenues rises, partially thanks to the ''Encyclopedia'' and the government's purchase of 12,500 copies for use by the military. Columbia University Press is notable for publishing reference works, such as ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'' (1935–present), ''The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry'' (online as ''The Columbia World of Poetry Online'') and ''The Columbia Gazetteer of the World'' (also online) and for publishing music. First among American university presses to publish in electronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Stories Press
Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Dan Simon in 1995, after establishing Four Walls Eight Windows in 1984 as an imprint at Writers and Readers, and then incorporating it as an independent company in 1986 together with then-partner John Oakes. Seven Stories was named for its seven founding authors: Annie Ernaux, Gary Null, the estate of Nelson Algren, Project Censored, Octavia E. Butler, Charley Rosen, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Seven Stories Press is known for its mix of politics and literature, and for its children's books. As the publisher of a large catalogue of activist nonfiction and history from such authors as Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Greg Palast and Howard Zinn, Seven Stories has had a major influence on public debate with books on foreign policy, the politics of prisons, and voter theft, among other topics. Prominent titles include ''Dark Alliance (book), Dark Alliance'' by Gary Webb, ''9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srećko Horvat
Srećko Horvat (born 28 February 1983) is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly ''Der Freitag'' called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in ''The Guardian'', Al Jazeera, ''Der Spiegel'', ''Jacobin (magazine), Jacobin'', ''Newsweek'' and ''The New York Times''. Life Horvat was born in Osijek, Croatia but lived for the first eight years of his life in Germany before returning to Croatia in 1991. After returning to Croatia, he was involved in the Hardcore punk, hardcore punk scene of the 1990s, graduated philosophy and general linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, started writing for Croatian magazines such as ''Zarez'' and, prior to his twenty-sixth birthday, published two books, ''Protiv političke korektnosti'' (''Against Political Correctness'') and ''Znakovi postmodernog grada'' (''Signs of the Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istros Books
Istros books is a London-based independent publisher of writers from South-East Europe and the Balkans, in English translation. It was set up in 2011 by Susan Curtis. Publications Notable publications include: *''Doppelgänger'' by Daša Drndić (Croatia), translated by Celia Hawkesworth & S.D. Curtis, 2018. Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2019). *'' Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent'' (2016) and '' Gaudeamus'' (2018) by Mircea Eliade (Romania), translated by Christopher Moncrieff and Christopher Bartholomew. *''Exile'' by Çiler İlhan (Turkey), translated by Aysegul Tososer Artes, winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''The Son'' by Andrej Nikolaidis (Montenegro), translated by Will Firth, 2013. The original work was a winner of the European Prize for Literature, 2011. *''Life Begins on Friday'' by Ioana Pârvulescu (Romania), translated by Alistair Ian Blythe, with an afterword by Mircea Cărtărescu, winner of the European Prize for Lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Nadya Tolokonnikova ( rus, Надя Толоконникова, p=, full name Nadezhda Andreevna Tolokonnikova, rus, Надежда Андреевна Толоконникова, p=nɐˈdʲeʐdə təlɐˈkonʲːɪkəvə; born November 7, 1989) is a Russian musician, conceptual artist, and Activism, political activist. She is a founding member of the feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the street art group Voina. On August 17, 2012, she was arrested for "Hooliganism#In the Soviet Union and Russia, hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and was ultimately sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On December 23, 2013, she was released early with another Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina under a newly passed amnesty bill dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Russia, Russian constitution. While jailed, Tolokonnikova was recognized as a political prisoner by the Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Wahnich
Sophie Wahnich is a French historian. She is director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a specialist in the French Revolution. Biography Sophie Wahnich holds an ''agrégation'' (1988) and a doctorate in history (1994), and is qualified to direct research (2007). Wahnich is director of research at the CNRS and director of the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC). Her work focuses on the relationship between the French Revolution and the present time. Her thesis was on the notion of the foreigner in the discourse of the French Revolution, and her Habilitation was entitled . She is involved in various collectives. For example, she was a member of the board of the (CVUH),Servat, Véronique (24 March 2009). "CVUH: Compte rendu de l'Assemblée générale du CVUH du 17 janvier 2009". CVUH (in French). and in 2015, she participated in the creation of the . She also denounces a "privatization of knowledge ", whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agon Hamza
Agon Hamza (born 1984) is a philosopher and a political theorist from Kosovo. Influenced by Žižek and his readings of German Idealism, Marx and Marxist tradition in general; his work develops further the Hegelian-Marxist concepts of state, religion and politics. He is the author of ''Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism and Film'' (2016). and the co-author of ''Reading Marx'' (2018) with Slavoj Žižek and Frank Ruda and ''From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo'' (2013) with Slavoj Žižek. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international journal of political thought and philosophy Crisis and Critique'. Life Hamza is an Assistant professor of political philosophy at Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, in Skopje, North Macedonia. He (has served) and continues to serve as political advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Ruda
Frank Ruda is a German philosopher. He is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Professor at the European Graduate School /EGS (https://egs.edu/faculty/frank-ruda). He received his PhD in 2008 from University of Potsdam under the supervision of Manfred Schneider and Christoph Menke with a work on Hegel's Philosophy of Right and his venia legendi (Habilitation) in 2017 from the Free University Berlin. Works * ''Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right''. With a preface by Slavoj Žižek. London & New York: Continuum, 2011. * ''For Badiou: Idealism without Idealism''. With a preface by Slavoj Žižek. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015. * ''Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. * ''The Dash - The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticism, Chicago regional studies, African American intellectual history, theater and performance studies, and fiction. Parneshia Jones is director of the press. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. History Founded in 1893, Northwestern University Press was initially dedicated to the publication of legal periodicals and scholarly legal texts. In 1957, the Press was established as a separate university publishing company and began expanding its offerings with new series in various fields. Notable Publications, Imprints, and Series Northwestern University Press publishes a wide range of titles. In 1963, the Press published Viola Spolin's landmark volume, ''Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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