One of the world’s leading
contemporary cultural critics returns to Southbank Centre.
Join prolific author Slavoj
Žižek as he discusses his new book, Disparities, following on from his
immensely popular appearances at Royal Festival Hall in 2010, 2012 and earlier
this year as part of our Power of Power festival.
When ‘disparity’ appears in philosophy,
it is usually in the everyday sense to describe ‘a great difference’. In his
new book, Žižek elevates disparity into a fully-fledged philosophical concept,
one which designates the basic incongruency of reality.
He examines this new
philosophical concept through notions of truth, beauty and goodness, in a book
that is written with disparity too; its skeletal structure is filled with
forceful differentiations and rebuttals of critics.
Žižek was once characterised
by his enemies as a deadly jester, and Disparities is precisely that – a book
of deadly serious jests.
Take a seat with us as Žižek
settles accounts with friends, enemies and everyone in between: Brandom,
Pippin, Zupancic, Chiesa, Johnston, Malabou, Kristeva, not to mention
Shakespeare, Schiller and Beckett.
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