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Titre: Surplus-Enjoyment
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Auteur: Slavoj Žižek
Format: Relié
ISBN-10: 1350226254
EAN: 9781350226258
ISBN: 9781350226258
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Sujet: Society & Culture
Date de publication: 2022-08-11
Description: 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 Žižek’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, Žižek 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?
Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
Item Height: 198
Item Length: 129.00
Année de publication: 2022

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