Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1149-1150
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Research Scientist ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Copenhagen Business School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature And Film

James N. Baron of Yale School of Management reviews, “Poker: The Parody of Capitalism” by Ole Bjerg. The EconLit Abstract of this book begins: “Explores the game of poker as a cultural expression with similar significance and resonance as art, literature, and film. Discusses the ontology of poker; anatomy of a poker hand; all you ever wanted to know about Texas Hold 'Em but were afraid to ask Slavoj Žižek; where the money comes from; styles of play in the poker economy; a tough way to make an easy living; why people play poker; losing it; what's in a game?; the history of poker; the poetry of money; and the uncanniness of poker. Berg is a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the Institute for Leadership, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. Index.”

Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost’(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to a not-too-distant Soviet alternative. Part 1 shows how Borat gels with recent leftist critiques of multiculturalism, spearheaded by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj żižek. Part 2 relates Borat to a largely submerged history of American minorities drawing hope from mnogonatsional'nost', as celebrated in Grigorii Aleksandrov's 1936 filmCircus.The final part presents Borat as choosing neither multiculturalism nor mnogonatsional'nost', but rather the continued opposition of the two, if not a “third way.” For a glimpse of what this might look like, the paper concludes with a discussion ofAbsurdistan(2006) by Soviet Jewish American novelist Gary Shteyngart.

scholarly journals Dialectics or politics? Atheism and the return to religion

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Much scholarly attention has been given to the vast differences in understandings of theism throughout the history of the theological tradition. Rather less attention has been given to differences in understandings of atheism. That there are and have been such differences, however, is obvious. This may be seen in the contemporary context if we juxtapose the ‘newly visible’ atheisms of, for instance, Richard Dawkins and Slavoj Žižek. In previous work, I and several other scholars have drawn attention to the ways in which the existence of different forms of atheism may be explained by the fact that they are responding to and negating very different forms of theism. But there may well be more at stake in differences between atheisms than this.

scholarly journals Skolen der ikke stopper med ikke at etablere sig

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Henrik Jøker Bjerre
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Prague Spring ◽  
History Of ◽  
Che Guevara

The history of the Slovenian School is more diverse, and longer, than one might expect. To trace the origins of what is today often referred to as the Slovenian School, one has to go back to 1971, when Rastko Močnik and Slavoj Žižek started taking up contemporary French structuralism to find new approaches to understanding the events in Europe and elsewhere, from Che Guevara to the Prague Spring. This article tracks down the major historical points in the development of the school, as well as some of its major philosophical assumptions, and argues that it has never really established itself as one. And that this continues to be one of its major virtues.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1299-1303
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Business School ◽  
Political History ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Harvard Business School ◽  
History Of

Valerie A. Ramey of University of California, San Diego and NBER reviews “The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal” by Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Chronicles the economic and political history of the Panama Canal from the origins of the idea in sixteenth-century Spain to the present day. Discusses an introduction to the Ditch; before the Ditch; preparing the Ditch; digging the Ditch; crossing the Ditch; passed by the Ditch; sliding into irrelevancy; ditching the Ditch; and concluding the Ditch. Maurer is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Yu is an economic historian and private consultant. Index.”

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 690-692
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Business School ◽  
Utility Measurement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marginal Revolution

Daniel Read of Warwick Business School, University of Warwick reviews “Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics,” by Ivan Moscati. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Reconstructs the history of utility measurement in economics from the marginal revolution of the 1870s to the beginning of behavioral economics in the mid-1980s.”

Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Sublime

Starting from a passage from Slavoj Žižek`s brilliant book The Sublime Object of Ideology, the very passage on canned laughter that gave such precious support for the development of the theory of interpassivity, this chapter examines a question that has proved indispensable for the study of interpassivity: namely, what does it mean for a theory to proceed by examples? What is the specific role of the example in certain example-friendly theories, for example in Žižek’s philosophy?

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