Surplus Enjoyment A Guide for the Non-Perplexed

Zizek. Slavoj

ISBN 10: 1350409391 / ISBN 13: 9781350409392

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2023

Beschreibung

Covers have minor wear, creasing, soil and curling. Corners bumped and curled. Binding tight. No writing. 393 pages including index. Argues that the recognizing the society of enjoyment in which we need and excess of more to be able to enjoy enough is a way out of the vicious circle of never enough and always wanting more. Size: 5 x 7.75.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 041668

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Surplus Enjoyment A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1350409391
• ISBN-13: 9781350409392
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Zizek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.