About this title: "The Parallax View" is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. A parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the 'parallax gap' separating two points between which no synthesis ...
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Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-30
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Date Published: 2006-04-01
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2006
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Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780262512688ISBN:0262512688
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Publisher: The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780262240512ISBN:0262240513
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Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 2006
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Description: New. "The Parallax View" is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational pos... read more
"My third Zizek book, definitely the most "theoretical." Makes me want to read the actual philosophers he talks about. What more can I say? This stuff is like candy to me."
"Definitely not the most engaging Zizek I've read, but not because it isn't full of interesting ideas. Rather it's because in order to fully follow Zizek's arguments here you need to have first read and comprehended the work of Hegel, Lacan, Dennett, Marx, Deleuze & Guattori, Kant, Chalmers, Heidegger, Badiou, Nietzshe; I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. The assumed knowledge of the reader is just absurd, but I guess the intended audience is professional academic philosophers. That said, the ideas here are pretty compelling, assuming you can decode what they are exactly. Its central theme is the idea that truth exists within the very "gap" between mutually irreconcilable and equally distorted perspectives. Zizek explores how this idea manifests itself in the realm of ontology with the question of appearance versus reality, in the realm of science with the problem of consciousness, and in the realm of politics with the left/right ideological stalemate. I guess I just wish Zizek would have been able to talk about these ideas without having to constantly formulate entire arguments based around the assumption that I've read his complete bookshelf."
"The problem with starting with the magnum opus, as this was the first book by Zizek that I'd read, is that it's almost way too sprawling to wrap your mind around. At the same time, hammering the theory down is almost essential to reading other books by Zizek. So, this is almost an essential book if you're tackling Zizek but be prepared to be reminded how much time you wasted hanging out with your friends and drinking instead of reading or, well, even seeing movies. Btw, the movie 'Matrix' is discussed in depth, so it might be a good idea to see that again.
Anyway, there's not much I can say about Zizek that hasn't already been said. He's probably definitely the most exciting philosopher alive today. That being said, this being his magnum opus, it is VERY fractured. One wonders whether he couldn't have had more coherence. The reading is undoubtedly fascinating but there is a lot of subject-jumping. Thinking about the underlying theory, that may (or may not?) be the point. Btw, it'd be a good idea if you had some idea of what both Hegel and Lacan were on about before tackling this beast."
"Though you find many of the now common witticisms that are used in all of his other books (space fillers, maybe lazy fingers), I couldn't finish this book because it referenced too many unfamiliar people and ideas. Maybe when I come back to it it will make more sense. I hope so, because I like his other books. Whether or not they make a real contribution to theoretical academia or anything at all seems beyond the point. The small pieces of illumination are enough to shrug off any misgivings about the overall application of his lacanian/marxist reading of world events. If anything, Zizek is great to read for story ideas!"
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