Probably the most famous living philosopher, slavoj zizek explores the concept of event, in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy wha. The parallax view by the mit press pdf free download ebook. To fully appreciate the value of this book, it seems that the reader has to have already read zizek s earlier key books. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The parallax view by the mit press in chm, djvu, fb3 download ebook. The parallax view is slavoj zizek s most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years. The parallax view and assesses the utility of zizek for theological studies, sums up various. The parallax view is slavoj zizeks most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position.
The parallax view not only expands zizeks lacanian. He is the author of fifty books on subjects ranging from opera to religion to film to the war in iraq and has been the subject of several documentary films, including the. Throughout the last three decades, the slovenian philosopher has become one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Download 2006 slavoj zizek the parallax view pdf from 3 mb, the parallax view 1974 from 1 gb free from tradownload. Thus there is no rapport between the two levels, no shared spacealthough they are closely connected, even identical in a way, they are,as it were,on the opposed sides of a moebius strip. The parallax view 2006 is a work of critical theory by slavoj zizek. Like many of zizeks books, it covers a wide range of topics, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, politics, literature, and film. What the parallax view does is to proffer an invisible hegelian thread to further systematize his philosophy, to pull it all together, to abridge its various components, and to bring in additional bricks such as thomas metzingers articulation of the ontological absence of. In zizek s longawaited magnum opus, he theorizes the parallax gap in the ontological, the scientific, and the politicaland rehabilitates dialectical materialism. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, zizek s critical eye alights upon a.