About this title: Lenin's writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. In this work, Slavoj Zizek situates the 1917 writings in their historical context.
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: VERSO
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781859846612ISBN:1859846610
Description: New. On September 11, 2001, a central critique of missile defence--that it will be futile against the lowest-tech and most likely type of attack against the United States--was brought home with terrible force. Yet the programme continues, as it has in... read more
"Zizek goes on for pages about The Fight Club, and, like D&G, he totally gives away the ending! Perhaps this explains his key philosophical error of selecting as principle the separation between Subject's limited ability to know and the vastness of what cannot be known, and further internalizing that division within the Subject. Hence the rejection of totality and covert resurrection of Kant's thing-in-itself.
Also his reactionary denial of sexual harassment's reality."
"I liked this book, i felt discussing Lenin's theoritical jump from possibility to practice was interesting. Zizek's idea of taking a leap was nice to read."
"zizek indicts the material capitalist world and advocates a return to lenin's revolution. he keeps it interesting by mixing in many allusions to movies like the matrix, fight club and speed and psychoanalytically relates it back to human relation to government."
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