Новинки Аленки Зупанчич

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles’ Antigone. The general perspective from which the book is written could be summarized with this simple question: What is it about the figure of Antigone that keeps haunting us? Why do all these readings and rewritings keep emerging? To what kind of always contemporary contradiction does the need, the urge to reread and reimagine Antigone—in all kinds of contexts and languages—correspond?

As key anchor points of this general interrogation, three particular “obsessions” have driven the author’s thinking and writing about Antigone. First is the issue of violence. The violence in Antigone is the opposite of “graphic” as we have come to know it in movies and in the media; rather, it is sharp and piercing, it goes straight to the bone. It is the violence of language, the violence of principles, the violence of desire, the violence of subjectivity. Then there is the issue of funerary rites and their role in appeasing the specific “undeadness” that seems to be the other side of human life, its irreducible undercurrent that death alone cannot end and put to rest. This issue prompted the author to look at the relationship between language, sexuality, death, and “second death.” The third issue, which constitutes the focal point of the book, is Antigone’s statement that if it were her children or husband lying unburied out there, she would let them rot and not take it upon herself to defy the decree of the state. The author asks, how does this exclusivist, singularizing claim (she would do it only for Polyneices), which she uses to describe the “unwritten law” she follows, tally with Antigone’s universal appeal and compelling power? Attempting to answer this leads to the question of what this particular (Oedipal) family’s misfortune, of which Antigone chooses to be the guardian, shares with the general condition of humanity. Which in turn forces us to confront the seemingly self-evident question: “What is incest?”

Let Them Rot is Alenka Zupančič’s absorbing and succinct guided tour of the philosophical and psychoanalytic issues arising from the Theban trilogy. Her original and surprising intervention into the broad and prominent field of study related to Sophocles’ Antigone illuminates the classical text’s ongoing relevance and invites a wide readership to become captivated by its themes.

Новая захватывающая книга Аленки Зупанчич посвящена Антигоне, героине древнегреческой трагедии и главной героине этики Лакана. Кто только не писал об Антигоне, не воздавал ей хвалу – Гегель и Гёльдерлин, Ануй и Брехт, Жак Маритен и Жак Лакан, Жан Кокто и Джоан Копжек, Джудит Батлер и Славой Жижек. Однако Аленка Зупанчич в своей, написанной в 2021 году книге приводит совершенно новые толкования. Казалось бы, между миром древнегреческой трагедии и днем сегодняшним нет ничего общего, однако в прочтении Аленки Зупанчич фигура Антигоны становится эмблематичной для современного понятия Поступка, того, что может задним числом изменить условия…

"Этика реального" Аленки Зупанчич с момента своего выхода на английском языке в 2000 году стала объектом пристального внимания среди психоаналитиков и философов. Эта книга представляет собой детальное прояснение этики желания и этики реального Лакана , и прояснение это осуществляется с ориентиром на Иммануила Канта и дневнегреческую трагедию. В книге исследуются вопросы лжи и правды, свободы и радикального зла, блага и желания. Этика - психоаналитическая практика, и Аленка Зупанчич не просто теоретизирует по поводу Канта и Лакана, но ее книга нацелена на создание концепткальной основы для этики, которая проходила бы между традиционной этикой, основанной на дискурсе господина, и постсовременной этикой, сосредоточенной на себе. Книга адресована всем, кто заинтересован в сохранении в сегодняшнем дне таких понятий, как субъект, желание, другой, этика.

Книга "Секс и Бытие" включает фундаментальную статью Аленки Зупанчич "Половые различия и онтология", подробное интервью Олелуш с Зупанчич "Мир полон несказанного" и статью Олелуш о книге Зупанчич "Что есть секс?".

Аленка Зупанчич - ведущий теоретик Люблянской школы психоанализа; книга "Секс и Бытие", посвященная вопросам сексуальности, женского, мужского и онтологии, адресована тем, у кого сегодня есть желание сохранять теоретическую мысль, психоанализ, феминистский дух, субъекта, а также тем, кто задается вопросами о том , что на первый взгляд кажется очевидным.

Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology.Consider sublimation-conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)-even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, "What is sex?" rather more complex. In this volume in the Short Circuits series, Alenka Zupancic approaches the question from just this perspective, considering sexuality a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis; and by psychoanalysis, she means that of Freud and Lacan, not that of the kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan "orthopedists of the unconscious."
Zupancic argues that sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

В книгу включены статьи трех знаменитых мыслителей Словенской школы психоанализа. Авторов объединяет характерный для Школы теоретический подход, сочетающий обращение к массовой культуре с классическими философскими и психоаналитическими текстами. Один из центральных сюжетов книги, любовь, делает ее интересной для широкого круга читателей.

В книгу включены статьи трех знаменитых мыслителей Словенской школы психоанализа. Авторов объединяет характерный для Школы теоретический подход, сочетающий обращение к массовой культуре с классическими философскими и психоаналитическими текстами. Один из центральных сюжетов книги, любовь, делает ее интересной для широкого круга читателей.

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any ‘human inclination’ such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more ‘humane’ light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary—someone who can help us with our own ethical dilemmas—many Kantian scholars have glossed over its apparent paradoxes and impossible claims. This book is concerned with doing exactly the opposite. Kant, thank God, is not our contemporary; he stands against the grain of our times.

Lacan on the face of it appears the very antithesis of Kant—the wild theorist of psychoanalysis compared to the sober Enlightenment thinker. His concept of the Real, however, provides perhaps the most useful backdrop to this new interpretation of Kantian ethics. Constantly juxtaposing her readings of the two philosophers. Alenka Zupancic summons up an ‘ethics of the Real’, and clears the ground for a radical restoration of the disruptive element in ethics.