The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan, Zizek 9780745663746 New^+

The Most Sublime HystericHegel with Lacan\nAuthor(s): Slavoj Zizek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745663746, 978-0745663746\nSynopsis\nWhat do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every clich and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for new ways of answering these questions. \n When Lacan described Hegel as the most sublime hysteric, he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is.