Understanding iek, Understanding Modernism

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Slavoj iek is one of todays leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacenciese.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethicsand pre-modern onese.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritiqueiek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene. This volume takes up the challenges laid out by ieks iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. ieks multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought. Understanding iek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of ieks writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies.

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Di Leo and Zalloua have put together an indispensable guide for understanding the centrality of modernity and modernism in ieks influential interventions in philosophy, politics, film studies, sexuality, psychoanalysis, music, and posthuman studies. This thought-provoking collection not only maps current conversations and debates in these terrains, but also explains the reasons leftists must still take ieks engagement with modernism seriously. In addition, this stimulating volume generously offers a glossary of major concepts that will appeal to both the knowbies and newbies in iekian studies * Jamil Khader, Professor and Dean of Research, Bethlehem University, Palestine *
From some of his earliest works, Slavoj Zizek has always been the champion of the theses that are still perhaps more than ever contemporaries of modern philosophy. This collection of wonderful essays, written by some of the leading Zizekian scholars in the world, explores practically every facet of Zizeks profound engagement with modernity as the name of an impasse that still haunts us. * Gabriel Tupinamb, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (2021) *
Undertanding iek, Underszandinng Modernism is an absolutely outstanding collection of essays on iek; wide in range, sharp in focus and remarkably vibrant in thought. * Alenka Zupancic, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, The European Graduate School, Switzerland *

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston, Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty-five books including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2018). Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of five books, including iek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theorys Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). He has edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.