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    Politics, perhaps? Philosophical authority in the works of Badiou and Žižek

    239104_Russell 2016.pdf (1.004Mb)
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    Authors
    Russell, Francis Joseph
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Dr Janice Baker
    Dr Robert Briggs
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/104
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    Postmodern philosophy has recently been critiqued for its purported indecisiveness and limited capacity to think radical political change. This thesis engages with key contemporary critics of postmodernism such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek in order to reaffirm postmodern philosophy’s significance and political import. In doing so, phenomena such as excess, laziness, and pessimism, are explored as potential sites of resistance to late-capitalist hegemony, which reveal the significance of postmodern thought against its detractors.

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