Title:
Event : a philosophical journey through a concept / Slavoj Žižek.
Author:
Žižek, Slavoj.
Publication Information:
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
B105 .E7 Z59 2014
Abstract:
"An 'Event' can refer to a devastating natural disaster or to the latest celebrity scandal, the triumph of the people or a brutal political change, an intense experience of a work of art or an intimate decision ... An event is the effect that seems to exceed its causes--and the space of an event is the distance of an effect from its causes. But, asks Slavoj Žižek, does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere? How can philosophy help us to determine what an event is and how it is possible?"--Page [4] of cover.
ISBN:
9781612194110
Physical Description:
182 pages ; 21 cm
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Contents:
Event in transit -- Framing, reframing, enframing -- Felix Culpa -- Buddhism naturalized -- The three events of philosophy -- Truth hurts -- The evental self -- La vérité surgit de la méprise -- The three events of psychoanalysis -- The real: confronting the thing -- The symbolic: the new harmony -- The imaginary: the three splashes -- The undoing of an event -- 'Nota bene!'
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