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