Surplus-Enjoyment

A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

Surplus-Enjoyment
Slavoj Zizek
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Hardback
h198 x 129mm - 400pg
11 Aug 2022 UK
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9781350226258
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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?
Slavoj Zizekis a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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ISBN-13: 9781350226258
Published: 11 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 400

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