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Zizek's Leftist Politic Themes

Posted on:2010-09-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278475360Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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Slavoj Zizek constitutes the intellectual parameters that a synthesis by the psychoanalytic theory by Jacque Lacan and the European speculative philosophic tradition(associated with Kant and Hegel),then of course,traces back to Marxist critical analyses.Marxist and Freudian theory are parallel and privileged theoretical discourses, according to Zizek, in part because the relationship of each to theory itself is one aspect of its domain of inquiry.Zizek is a prolific and authoritative theoretician who explains psychoanalytic concepts through references from philosophical questions to the structure of modern capitalist. He elucidates complex philosophical problems, simultaneously, shedding light on the lucid and engaged Left wing political intervention of the present. As a provocative thinker,he has clearly exploited this opening as his writings have become more unambiguously political in the very close decade.Since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the early '90s, Zizek's star keeps rising over Ljubljana for good reason.He has found a way to offer the Euro-American Left a level of political introspection in theory.His work fulfills one of the primary goals of Marxist theory,that is,to criticize the workings of capitalism.I recognize Zizek's patently anti-capitalist stance is main about three relatively parts:anti-globalist capitalism;rejection of the current emphasis on multicultural tolerance;skepticism toward bourgeois global democracy.Zizek claims that, all these three deceits remain caught in the same fantasy framework and thereby ultimately supports(or tacit embrace)capitalism. Via Marxist political-economic analysis,he finally comes to a conclusion:the destruction of capitalism.Like other radical Left,Zizek conceives history should not be seen as a continuous evolution,but as a discontinuous series of events-events in which precisely the logic of evolution is broken each time and in which things happen intention. So he advocates a plea for Leninist act,a uncertain gesture that breaks through the symbolic order.In other words,he invokes the emancipatory legacy of Europe in an attempt to reinvent Marxism in a way similar to what Lenin, thrown into an open situation, had to do in 1917 between the revolutions.Lesson is Zizekian: actions speak louder than words.Zizek maps the axis of disagreement stretching throughout four types of contemporary left wing critical frameworks,not only do such approaches to Left politics leave the intact political-economic frame, but the very political tactics chosen are those conducive to the territorializing flows of global capital.There is an urgent need for a repolitization of, most of all, the economy, raises the question of the possibility of radical political thought and action.Perhaps as a result of criticisms that his work avoids adopting clear and consistent political project,but in my opinion,maybe his radical emancipatory politics opened up new spaces and opportunities for a more robust Left. So at last, I would like to point out three theoretical characters of his Leftist politic thought.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zizek, leftist politics, anti-capitalism, Action
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