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  • Syllabus Spring 2014

    PHIL 607 ~ iek Professor: Peter Warnek ([email protected]) MW 1600-1750 (SCH 250C) Office hours: Thursdays 1330-1530 (and by appointment) Course Description:

    Seminar treatment of key texts by controversial and provocative Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj iek. The course is reading intensive, with the aim of gaining an overview of ieks considerable body of work as a whole. The general concern is threefold: (1) to understand ieks interpretation of the history of philosophical thought; (2) to account for the development of his work since the publication of The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989); and (3) to establish an interpretive basis for reading ieks work from out of the methods and claims of that work itself. Special attention will be given to how ieks project situates itself by referring to the thought of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, and the 19th century philosophical movement initiated by Hegel and Schelling. Consideration will be given to other authors that figure prominently in ieks work, such as Marx and Freud. On occasion it will prove helpful to also consider ieks interpretations of cinema, popular culture and current events.

    Required Texts, all by iek:

    1. The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso) 2. Tarrying with the Negative (Duke University Press) 3. The Indivisible Remainder (Verso) 4. The Parallax View (MIT Press)

    Course Requirements:

    1. The completion of a final paper on an approved topic of research relating to ieks texts. 2. The submission of a prospectus for this final paper no later than the beginning of the sixth week of the

    term. 3. Students will also be responsible for beginning each seminar with a brief review of the topics of discussion

    of the previous meeting. 4. Participation in seminar.

    Learning Outcomes:

    1. An understanding of the critical philosophical project of the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj iek, beginning with his early work, The Sublime Object of Ideology.

    2. An ability to account for how this project relates to other historically significant philosophical movements and paradigms, such a psychoanalysis, German idealism, neo-Marxism and Critical Theory, deconstruction, phenomenology, feminism, deep ecolology and Christian theology.

    Schedule of Readings: WEEK DATE READING

    I 3.31

    The Sublime Object of Ideology, iii-xxxi

    4.2

    SOI, 3-92

    II 4.7

    SOI, 95-167

    4.9

    SOI, 171-263

    III 4.14

    Tarrying With the Negative, 1-80

    4.16

    TWN, 83-124

    IV 4.21

    TWN, 125-161

    4.23

    TWN, 165-237

    V 4.28

    The Indivisible Remainder, 1-62

    4.30

    IR, 63-91

    VI 5.5

    IR, 92-136

    5.7

    IR, 136-186

  • Syllabus Spring 2014

    VII 5.12

    IR, 189-231

    5.14

    The Parallax View, 3-67

    VIII 5.19

    PV, 69-123

    5.21

    PV, 125-199

    IX 5.26

    PV, 201-250

    5.28

    PV, 253-327

    X 6.2

    PV, 331-385

    6.4

    Conclusion

    6.11

    Final Paper Due

    Select Bibliography:

    Gabriel, Markus, and Slavoj iek. Mythology, Madness, and Laughter Subjectivity in German Idealism. Continuum, 2009.

    Kay, Sarah. Zizek: A Critical Introduction. Polity, 2003. Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: the first complete edition in English. W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. Robbins, Jeffrey W. et al. The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken. Continuum, 2008. Wood, Kelsey. Zizek: A Readers Guide. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Wright, Elizabeth, and Edmond Wright. The Zizek Reader (Blackwell Readers). Wiley-Blackwell, 1999. iek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. Verso, 1989. ---. For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor. Verso, 1991. ---. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. MIT Press, 1991. ---. Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Routledge, 1992. ---. Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology. Duke University Press, 1993. ---. The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality. Verso, 1994. ---. The Invisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters. London: Verso, 1996. ---. The Plague of Fantasies. Verso, 1997. ---. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. Verso, 1999. ---. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynchs Lost Highway. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for

    the Humanities, University of Washington, 2000. ---. The Fragile Absolute, Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? Verso, 2000. ---. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion. Verso, 2001. ---. On Belief. Routledge, 2001. ---. The Fright of Real Tears. British Film Institute, 2001. ---. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. MIT Press, 2003. ---. Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates. Verso, 2002. ---. Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. Routledge, 2004. ---. Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle. Verso, 2004. ---. How to Read Lacan. W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. ---. The Parallax View. MIT, 2006. ---. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections. Picador, 2008. ---. In Defense of Lost Causes. Verso, 2008. ---. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Verso, 2009. ---. Living in the End Times. Verso, 2010. iek, Slavoj, Rex Butler, and Scott Stephens. Interrogating the Real [selected Writings]. Continuum, 2006. iek, Slavoj, and Glyn Daly. Conversations with iek. Polity, 2004. iek, Slavoj and Sina Najafi. Cogito and the Unconscious. Duke University Press, 1998. iek, Slavoj, and Audun Mortensen. ieks Jokes: (did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?). MIT

    Press, 2014.