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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (27 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415969204
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415969208
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"For those who thought they could by-pass Deleuze as well for the most passionate Deleuzians, "Organs Without Bodies will be a major revelation. By placing Deleuze into proximity with his great antipodes--Hegel and Lacan--Zizek endows Deleuze's tireless elaboration of the processes of differentiation and becoming in all spheres of life with an entirely new degree of conceptual clarity and political urgency. Through his deep engagement with the logic of Deleuze's project, Zizek opens up new possibilities of thought beyond the terms of the current political debates on globalization, democratization, war on terror. Once again, Zizek has produced an utterly timely and radically untimely meditation."
-Eric Santner, author of "On the Psychotheology of Everday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig
"With all his ususal humor and invention, Zizek-- the acknowledged master of the 180 degree turn -- here takes a trip into "enemy" territory to deliver Deleuze of a marvelously rebellious child, one that seriously challenges Deleuze's other progeny with a surprising but convincing bid for succession. Those who thought Deleuze's forward march into the future would follow a straight path are forced to rethink their stance. From now on all readings of Deleuze will have to take a detour through this important -- even necessary -- book."
-Joan Copjec, author of "Imagine There's No Woman
"Even Mr. Zizek's most devoted fans sometimes wonder if he would do them a favor by not writing a book this month. Anyone feeling guilty for not yet having read Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuize and Consequences, published by Routledge in December, may instead want to consult Mr. Zizek's essay on GillesDeleuze (the philospher of "schizoanalysis) in the winter issue of Critical Inquiry.."
-Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2004


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The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and psychoanalysis. In this deliciously polemical work, Zizek shows Deleuze's connections to both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital capitalism'. With his brilliant energy and fearless argumentation, Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the one we thought we knew.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Zizekian not Deleuzian, 17 Jan 2006
I was surprised at the negative reviews of this book on Amazon.com, many of them bemoaned the fact that Zizek did not talk enough about Deleuze - as if any Zizek book is about anything other than Zizek - and still many stated how tired his writing style and arguments were getting.

I am inclined to agree with the second point but not the first. If you have read more than two Zizek books in the past you will be familiar with the mixture of highly involved Lacanian exposition one minute and bawdy joke the next. It is, after all what we love about him. However, after a while, one starts to questions these stylistics and ask is there, after all, anything beneath them? In Organs without Bodies there is, just...

Zizek displays a resaonable understanding of non-Guattarian Deleuze, although as usual he bastardises and approrpriates concepts and images for his own ends - not so unusal as this is a typically Deleuzian trick, however there are times when all Zizek seems to offer by way of evidance or proof is "Can we not see..." or "So, we can say then.." Frankly sometimes we can.t see and we can't say. he attempts to persuade us that Deleuze's ideas of Molar and Molecular are the same as Marx's ideas of the Base and Superstucture, to my mind they are completely different and yet Slavvy seems to spend an entire chapter on that flimsy premise.

However, I do feel as though I leant something about Deleuze here, although I had to dig for it - the reason for Deleuze's criticism of Saussure for instance being based on negativity.

If you are looking for a serious discussion of Deleuze look elsewhere, however if you are looking for an 'encounter' than this is a resonably interesting and certainly not worth the vitriol that others have written about it.

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