The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek

The Sublime Object of Ideology 

Author: Slavoj Žižek   

Publisher: Verso    

Edition: Second 2008

ISBN: 978-1-84467-300-1

Language: English  

Condition: Good. 

Binding: Softcover 

Pages: 272

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The Sublime Object of Ideology is a book by the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The work is widely considered his masterpiece.

Žižek thematizes the Kantian notion of the sublime in order to liken ideology to the experience of something that is absolutely vast and powerful beyond all perception and objective intelligibility. Žižek provides an analysis of "How did Marx Invent the Symptom?", in which he compares the ways in which the notion of symptom runs through the work of the philosopher Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Žižek opposes any simplistic reading of the two thinkers, who are shown to have discovered the "kernel" of meaning concealed within the apparently unconnected "forms" of commodities (Marx) and dreams (Freud). Žižek thinks it is more important to ask why latent content takes a particular form. Žižek therefore argues that according to both Freud and Marx the dream-work and commodity-form itself require analysis.

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