Žižek’s “Frankenstein”: Modernity, Anti-Enlightenment Critique and Debates on the Left

In this article, I examine Slavoj Žižek’s Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus (1818), and argue that Žižek’s critique of Shelley’s ambiguous and contradictory attitude toward the French Revolution and its regime of terror remains central to the...

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Main Author: Jamil Khader
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2022-11-01
Series:Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/1407