The Idea of the Party.
Recent scholarship on the idea of communism leads to questions of organization and what Michel Hardt refers to as "the problem of leadership". Beyond the critical assessment of the crises of contemporary capitalism, and beyond the existing social democratic solutions, a psychoanalytically-informed Ž...
| Published in: | International Journal of Žižek Studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 1 - 29 |
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International Journal of Zizek Studies
2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=141445970&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 141445970 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17518229 7834 jtl: International Journal of Žižek Studies issn: 17518229 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2019 vid: 13 iid: 3 pid: 59861 pub: International Journal of Zizek Studies artinfo: ui: 141445970 ppf: 1 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.1MB tig: atl: The Idea of the Party. aug: au: Leger, Marc James affil: Independent Scholar, Canada su: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 Political parties Power (Social sciences) Climate change Capitalism sug: subj: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 Political parties Power (Social sciences) Climate change Capitalism keyword: Communism Four Discourses Jacques Lacan Political Parties Slavoj Žižek ab: Recent scholarship on the idea of communism leads to questions of organization and what Michel Hardt refers to as "the problem of leadership". Beyond the critical assessment of the crises of contemporary capitalism, and beyond the existing social democratic solutions, a psychoanalytically-informed Žižekian notion of the party offers solutions to ultra-left theories of networked horizontalism as well as versions of the party that repeat the problems of communist modernism. If the context of climate change, economic inequality and political authoritarianism require that we reconsider "what is to be done" about global neoliberal capitalism, then the idea of the political party, understood in terms of Jacques Lacan's Discourse of the Analyst, can provisionally occupy the place of the neutral knowledge of the objective demands of history that is premised on the experiences of the emancipatory left. Like the Analyst, the party does not stand in for or represent the people. However, through the fetishistic aspect of representation, as opposed to materially or ontologically-grounded guarantees for political power, the party registers a minimal difference from a technocratic University Discourse and an ultra-left Discourse of the Hysteric. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of International Journal of Žižek Studies is the property of International Journal of Zizek Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: International Journal of Žižek Studies holder: International Journal of Zizek Studies dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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