Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek
Postmodern philosophy has recently been critiqued for its purported indecisiveness and limited capacity to think radical political change. This thesis engages with key contemporary critics of postmodernism such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek in order to reaffirm postmodern philosophy’s significanc...
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| description | Postmodern philosophy has recently been critiqued for its purported indecisiveness and limited capacity to think radical political change. This thesis engages with key contemporary critics of postmodernism such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek in order to reaffirm postmodern philosophy’s significance and political import. In doing so, phenomena such as excess, laziness, and pessimism, are explored as potential sites of resistance to late-capitalist hegemony, which reveal the significance of postmodern thought against its detractors. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-1042017-02-20T06:41:35Z Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek Russell, Francis Joseph Postmodern philosophy has recently been critiqued for its purported indecisiveness and limited capacity to think radical political change. This thesis engages with key contemporary critics of postmodernism such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek in order to reaffirm postmodern philosophy’s significance and political import. In doing so, phenomena such as excess, laziness, and pessimism, are explored as potential sites of resistance to late-capitalist hegemony, which reveal the significance of postmodern thought against its detractors. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/104 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Russell, Francis Joseph Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title | Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title_full | Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title_fullStr | Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title_short | Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek |
| title_sort | politics, perhaps? philosophical authority in the works of badiou and žižek |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/104 |