Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings
Author(s): Slavoj Zizek
Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for a monumental catastrophe that left an indelible mark on all of subsequent history and political thinking? Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. Zizek puts the 1917 writings in their historical context, while his extensive Afterword tackles the key question of whether this man can be reinvented in our era of cultural capitalism.
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"A return to Marx may be acceptable today ... But a repetition of Lenin? ... Perhaps ÂiÂek's return to Lenin is merely tactical, figurative even. He can't be serious, can he? ... ÂiÂek claims that Lenin's act, 'his choice, ' continues to speak to those of us on the left today. Faced with our current conceptual deadlock, we must have the courage, the nerve, to risk isolation, self-annihilation even, in order to offer a real alternative to the false oppositions recuperated by and churned out for our consumption by the image industry of late capitalism ... The postmodernists and liberal multiculturalists, today's Bernsteins and Kautskys--our contemporary Plekhanovs and Martovs, beware!"--"Bad Subjects"
Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), The Plague of Fantasies and The Ticklish Subject.
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- : Verso Books
- : Verso Books
- : 0.431
- : 02 August 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Slavoj Zizek
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 335.43
- : 352