Uncompromisingly radical, hypercerebral but also down to earth and irreverent, Slavoj iek is a philosopher whose thought is sometimes hard to plot a route through.
Charting its innumerable hairpins and circuitous diversions, this cognitive map of iek country is a guide to its philosophical, psychoanalytic and political landscapes. ieks prodigious output comprises a dense and layered critique of contemporary thought. Taking its lead from his web-like approach, iek Country is an A to Z of cross-referenced entries that covers the range of his preoccupations - from Terminator to the transcendental and Marx to the möbius strip. Each topic is explored both as a direct subject of ieks focus and as a component of his broader philosophy. Every entry is fully referenced, pointing readers to the key points in his books and articles, as well as his many interviews, talks and panel discussions.
Together, these ideas, threads, and repeated motifs give shape to a challenging, sometimes difficult philosophy that defies ready assimilation into academia and easy thinking.
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A cartographic feat: this book captures the hodological logic rereading, displacement, return structuring ieks universe. It does not reduce his complexity; rather, it traces the pathways connecting Hegel, Lacan and Marx to cinema, politics and ideology. In so doing, it transforms philosophy into a living instrument for deciphering our time and trains the reader in the art of thinking with iek. * Monica del Pilar Uribe, Director of The Prisma - The Multicultural Newspaper * This is the guide to iek we've been waiting for - one that doesn't merely summarize his ideas but teaches us how to inhabit them, tracing the hodological pathways through which Hegel, Lacan, and Marx converge into a genuinely speculative philosophy. Sheehan writes with a rare combination of scholarly precision and infectious enthusiasm, making even the most vertiginous iekean paradoxes feel not just navigable but exhilarating. An indispensable companion for anyone who suspects that the real adventure lies not in reading about iek but in reading iek himself. * Rafael Winkler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa *
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An A to Z map of the philosophy of Slavoj iek - arguably the most iconoclastic thinkers since Marx and Nietzsche.
Introduction
1. Absolute Knowing
2. Absolute Recoil
3. Althusser, Louis
4. Antagonism
5. Antigone
6. Anti-Semitism
7. Appearance and Essence
8. Aristotle
9. Aufhebung
10. Badiou
11. Bartlebys I would prefer not to
12. the beautiful soul
13. Beckett, Samuel
14. Benjamin, Walter
15. Big Other
16. Blade Runner
17. Buddhism
18. Capitalism
19. Christian Atheism
20. Cinema
21. Class Struggle
22. Commodity Fetishism
23. Communism
24. Concrete Universality
25. Contingency and Necessity
26. Contradiction
27. cunning of reason
28. Deleuze
29. Descartes and the Cogito
30. Desire
31. Dialectic
32. Dialectical Materialism
33. Drive
34. Enunciated and Enunciation
35. Ethics
36. Event / Act
37. Fantasy
38. Freedom
39. Freud
40. Gaze
41. German Idealism
42. Hegel
43. Heidegger
44. Hysteria
45. Identity and Difference
46. Ideology
47. Infinity
48. Infinite Judgement
49. In-itself / For-Itself
50. jouissance
51. Kafka, Franz
52. Kant
53. Kierkegaard, Sören
54. Lacan
55. Lenin
56. Literary Criticism
57. Love
58. Luxemburg, Rosa
59. Lynch, David
60. Marx
61. The Matrix
62. Meillassoux, Quentin
63. minimal difference
64. Neighbour
65. Negation of Negation
66. Negativity
67. night of the world
68. Not-All / Non- All
69. objet petit a
70. Ontology
71. Other
72. Parallax
73. Partial Object
74. Perversion
75. Plato
76. Politics
77. Predestination
78. Psychoanalysis
79. Quantum Physics
80. Race
81. Rancière, Jacques
82. Real
83. Reflection
84. Retroactivity
85. Robespierre, Maximilien
86. Russian Revolution
87. Schelling, F. W. J.
88. Sexual
89. Sexual Difference
90. Shakespeare
91. sinthome
92. Speculative Reason
93. Spirit
94. spirit is a bone
95. Stalinism
96. Subject
97. subjective destitution
98. Substance as also Subject
99. Superego
100. Symbolic
101. Transcendental
102. Truth
103. Unconscious
104. Vertigo
105. Wokeness
106. Zupancic, Alenka
Bibliography
Sean Sheehan is an independent scholar, having previously taught in the UK and abroad. His publications include The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece (2002), Socrates: Life and Times (2007), iek: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Sophocles Oedipus the King: A Readers Guide (Bloomsbury, 2012).
