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BL
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964896
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b719266
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| Main Entry
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Žižek, Slavoj.
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| Title & Author
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The plague of fantasies /\ Slavoj Žižek.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Verso,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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The essential Žižek
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xxiv, 320 pages ;; 20 cm.
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| ISBN
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1844673030
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: 9781844673032
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| Notes
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Reissued with a new preface by the author - Main text originally published: 1997.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction ---- 1. The Seven Veils of Fantasy --- 2. Love Thy Neighbour? No, Thanks! --- 3. Fetishism and Its Vicissitudes --- 4. Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being ---- App. I. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Sexual Act in Cinema --- App. II. Robert Schumann: The Romantic Anti-Humanist --- App. III. The Unconscious Law: Towards an Ethics Beyond the Good.
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| Abstract
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Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions--whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references--explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter--to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives. -- Back cover.
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Cyberspace.
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Fantasy.
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Ideology.
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Popular culture.
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Virtual reality.
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Cyberspace.
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Fantasi.
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Fantasy.
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Ideologi.
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Ideology.
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Popular culture.
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Populärkultur.
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Virtual reality.
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Virtuell verklighet.
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| Dewey Classification
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154.3
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BF175.5.F36Z5812 2008
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