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Acontecimiento (2014)

by Slavoj Žižek(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Sexto Piso

series

Philosophy in Transit

review 1: Still reading - but thoroughly enjoying this so far. Zizek touches on many of his familiar riffs, but due to the "to-be-read-while-in-transit" theme, he keeps it pretty concrete and layman-friendly. At the same time, there are a few variations I have noticed so far; a few new treatments of the familiar stuff that I have not seen/read/heard him work with before.Done. This is an excellent read - nothing entirely new if you are a reader of Zizek, but that's not to say there are not some interesting surprises, and much that raises a laugh at his audacity. I am going to read it again.
review 2: Zizek at his incoherently coherent best.Some repetition of stories, if you have read his other books, but I thought he captured the different-but-related facets of the Event.... more Zizek seems to be competing with Badiou over the term, but in many ways he puts more flesh onto the notion.My favourite is: "As such, it is an event: at its most elementary, event is not something that occurs within the world, but is a change of the very frame through which we perceive the world and engage in it." The trauma of the event. A trauma that shifts the space of the evental horizon. The trauma of subject of the event. less

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