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Looking Awry

Name: Looking Awry
Author: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9780262240314

by Slavoj Zizek

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In this book Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis.

About the Author, Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books,including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press).

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A brilliant piece of work, as Yugoslavian social theorist (and reform activist) Zizek explicates famed French psychoanalyst Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, including Hitchcock, Chaplin, Stephen King, and George Romero. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)