Surplus-Enjoyment
A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 11 August 2022
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350226258
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 202x132x28 mm
- Weight 527 g
- Language English 428
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Short description:
A compelling guide to Lacan's idea of 'Surplus enjoyment' through philosophy, pop culture, history and more.
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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 Zizek'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, Zizek 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?
Table of Contents:
Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World
1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology
2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy
3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our Oppression
Finale: Subjective Destitution As A Political Category
Bibliography
Index
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
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