The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Zizek

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Judgements about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek have been, like iek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius on the other. But behind the extremes of veneration and disdain, there is a third iek. A more interesting and nuanced iek and one who, like no other of his generation, has stimulated philosophical debates that radiate far beyond philosophys borders into all disciplines of the humanities. He has done so both through his radical materialist reinterpretation of concepts of German idealism, especially Hegels legacy, and through his combination of Marxist ideology critique with the philosophy of psychoanalysis as developed by Freud and Lacan. With this theoretical background, he has produced more than 50 books focused on classical questions of ontology, epistemology, the philosophy of subjectivity and cultural theory.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj iek brings together internationally renowned philosophers who have repeatedly engaged with ieks philosophy over the past three decades. The chapters of the handbook introduce readers his life, his books, his concepts and present up-to-date research articles on central motives and topics of his philosophy. They thus present not only ways in which his philosophy has affected contemporary theory, but develop also friendly-critically reflections on controversies that ieks publications and positions have triggered.

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Dominik Finkelde is Professor of Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy, Germany. He is the co-editor of iek Responds! (Bloomsbury, 2023) and has published on contemporary philosophy and German Idealism.