Dear All,
I thought some members of this list might be interested to hear that Zizek is now acquiring a cult following in India. Typical of the coverage he is receiving is the following article in the Indian journal Caravan by the British historian Philip Bounds.
http://caravanmagazine.in/Story.aspx?Storyid=272&StoryStyle=FullStory
Best Wishes,
Daisy
Dr. Daisy Hasan
'Between Kismet and Karma' Project Team
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could you guys continue this discussion off list since your messages are piling up in my inbox?
Thanks
Roberta
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This promotion/marketing strategy has not gone well really has it...
K.A.L.
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:51:10 +0000
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I wonder if any of these authors have addressed the libertarian tradition
Stuart
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Let's just be glad they didn't go with the working title "NOW! That's What I Call Communism 87"
Cornel
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Re' 'All-star' radicals - as we all know, celebrity sells - even communism.
K. A. L.
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:24:49 +0000
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> Subject: Re: SLAVOJ ZIZEK & COSTAS DOUZINAS (EDs) - THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> I'm struggling to decide if the close adjacency of 'all-star' and 'radical'
> (not once but twice!) is wittily ironic discursive interplay or something
> else entirely.
>
> We may never know.....
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> Andy M
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> --On 14 February 2011 08:06 -0800 VersoMail Verso <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM
> >
> > Edited by SLAVOJ ZIZEK AND COSTAS DOUZINAS
> >
> > Published 7th February, 2011
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued
> > importance of communism.
> >
> > "Separating the promise of communism from the disasters of the twentieth
> > century is no easy task. But it feels necessary. Already we know that
> > choices will have to be made and sides taken. Impending ecological
> > disaster suggests that this could be our last chance to do so. If another
> > world is possible, it will happen in action, not abstract theory. The
> > first choice is very simple: to begin" The Guardian
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > 'The long night of the left is coming to a close' write Slavoj Zizek and
> > Costas Douzinas in their introduction to The Idea of Communism. The
> > continuing economic crisis which began in 2008, the shift away from a
> > unipolar world defined by American hegemony, and the ecological crisis
> > mean that growing numbers of people are keen to explore an alternative,
> > and to re-discover the idea of communism. This volume, which emerges from
> > the landmark 'Idea of Communism' conference in 2009, marks the
> > theoretical beginning of that re-discovery.
> >
> > Bringing together an all-star cast of radical intellectuals, including
> > Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, Michael Hardt, and Antonio
> > Negri, The Idea of Communism explores the historical, philosophical, and
> > political dimensions of the communist ideal, in order to clarify its
> > meaning and relevance today. The volume brings together their discussions
> > from the landmark conference, highlighting both the idea of communism's
> > continuing significance and the need to reconfigure the concept within a
> > world marked by havoc and crisis.
> >
> > The contributors argue that multiple crises of the modern world lay bare
> > the limits of mainstream liberal capitalist ideology. Blending astute
> > analysis with compelling theoretical sophistication, The Idea of
> > Communism complements the themes and arguments in other works in Verso'
> > 'Pocket Communism' series, including Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis,
> > Boris Groys' The Communist Postscript, and Bruno Bosteel's forthcoming
> > The Actuality of Communism.
> >
> > The collection opens with an exhilarating call to arms by France's
> > greatest living intellectual, the 'last man standing' of '68. The iconic
> > Badiou examines the link between the communist idea and political
> > practice, highlighting what he calls "the anonymous action of millions of
> > militants, rebels, fighters" who, although "unrepresentable as such",
> > have throughout history represented, "elements of the Idea of Communism
> > at various stages".
> >
> > Capturing the sense of intellectual confidence and excitement in renewing
> > the communist ideal, Slavoj ?i?ek concludes the collection with a
> > characteristically wide-ranging contribution taking in Lenin, Bill Gates
> > and Samuel Beckett. He addresses the question, 'how to begin from the
> > beginning?' and posits an answer by way of identifying new revolutionary
> > subjects which correspond to today's 'post-industrial' capitalism.
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > Praise for SLAVOJ ZIZEK:
> >
> > "Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master
> > of the counterintuitive observation." New Yorker
> >
> > "A great provocateur... Zizek writes with passion and an aphoristic
> > energy that is spellbinding." Los Angeles Times
> >
> > "The most dangerous philosopher in the West." New Republic
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > SLAVOJ ZIZEK is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work
> > traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and
> > political theory, taking in film, popular culture, and literature to
> > provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as
> > well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. The author of over 30
> > books, SLAVOJ ZIZEK'S provocative prose has challenged a generation of
> > activists and intellectuals. His latest book is LIVING IN THE END TIMES.
> > He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director
> > of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College,
> > University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of
> > Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
> >
> > COSTAS DOUZINAS is a Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck
> > Institute for the Humanities, University of London. He is the author of
> > numerous works, including HUMAN RIGHTS AND EMPIRE, THE END OF HUMAN
> > RIGHTS, and LAW AND THE IMAGE: THE AUTHORITY OF ART AND THE AESTHETICS OF
> > LAW.
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > ISBN -13: 978 1 84467 459 6 / $26.95 / £14.99 / $33.50 / Paperback / 224
> > pages
> >
> > ISBN -13: 978 1 84467 455 8 / $95.00 / £55.00 / $118.50 / Hardback / 224
> > pages
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > For more information or to buy the book visit:
> > http://www.versobooks.com/books/513-the-idea-of-communism
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