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Books by Renata Salecl
  | | A Passion for Ignorance(New) What We Choose Not to Know and Why by Renata Salecl Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19560-5, ISBN: 0-691-19560-9 "An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between truth ..." |
 | | The Tyranny of Choice(Reprint) (Big Ideas (Profile Books)) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-186-8, ISBN: 1-84668-186-3 "Today we are encouraged to view our lives as being full of choice. Like products on a supermarket shelf, our identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this freedom can create anxiety, and feelings of guilt and inadequacy. In The Tyranny of Choice, acclaimed philosopher and sociologist Renata Salecl explores how late capitalism's shrill exhortations to 'be yourself' are leading to ever-greater disquiet - and how its ..." |
 | | On Anxiety(1st Edition) (Thinking in Action) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-31276-9, ISBN: 0-415-31276-0 "We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties.On Anxiety takes a fascinating, psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic stricke ..." |
 | | Versions of Love and Hate(Updated) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2000 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-236-2, ISBN: 1-85984-236-4 "Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfillment? Renata Salecl explores the distributing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destru ..." |
 | | Sexuation (Series: SIC 3) by Renata Salecl, Contributor-Genevieve Morel, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques-Alain Miller, Contributor-Colette Soler, Contributor-Eric Santner Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2473-7, ISBN: 0-8223-2473-3 "Contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference are described and analysed. On the one hand, much current thinking suggests that sexual identity is fluid - socially constructed and/or performatively enacted. This discourse is often invoked in the act of overcoming an earlier patriarchal era of fixed and naturalised identities. On the other hand, some modern discourses of sexual identit ..." |
 | | The Spoils of Freedom(1st Edition) Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism (Opening Out: Feminism for Today) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-07358-5, ISBN: 0-415-07358-8 "The Spoils of Freedom examines the emergence of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies in post-socialist Eastern Europe. In a political context that includes ethnic wars, post-socialist totalitarianism, capitalist moral majority ideologies, and a virulent new patriarchy, this provocative study asks what has become of the notions of democracy and human rights since the collapse of socialism and challenges the 'political correct ..." |
 | | Choice (Big Ideas) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-192-9, ISBN: 1-84668-192-8 "We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identity seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freedom to choose can create extreme anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy and guilt. Choice explores how late capitalism s shrill exhortations to be oneself can be a tyranny which only leads to ..." |
 | | A Passion for Ignorance What We Choose Not to Know and Why by Renata Salecl Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2022 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24099-2, ISBN: 0-691-24099-X "Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, “Memory after Ethnic Cleansing: Victims' and Perpetrators' Narratives in Prijedor” [treatises and documents], Journal of Ethnic Studies 72 (2014): 25–41. 26. Mihajlović Trbovc, “Memory after Ethnic Cleansing,” ..." |
 | | Gaze and Voice as Love Objects(Illustrated) SIC 1 ([sic] Series) by Renata Salecl, Slavoj Zizek, Contributor-Alenka Zupancic, Contributor-Mladen Dolar Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1806-4, ISBN: 0-8223-1806-7 "The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love . . . or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love’s medium. The contributors proceed from the Lacanian premise that “there is no sexual relationship,” that the sexe ..." |
 | | Gaze and Voice As Love Objects (Series: SIC 1) by Renata Salecl, Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1813-2, ISBN: 0-8223-1813-X "The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love . . . or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love’s medium. The contributors proceed from the Lacanian premise that “there is no sexual relationship,” that the sexe ..." |
 | | On Anxiety by Renata Salecl Pasta Dura, 172 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-31275-2, ISBN: 0-415-31275-2 "We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties.On Anxiety takes a fascinating, psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic stricke ..." |
 | | Jenny Holzer(1st Edition) (Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series) by Jenny Holzer, Samuel Beckett, David Joselit, Joan Simon, Elias Canetti, Renata Salecl, Vv.Aa., Gill Bentley, John Shutt Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1998 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3754-3, ISBN: 0-7148-3754-7 "Jenny Holzer (b.1950) is one of the most significant artists to work in the public realm since the 1980s. Starting on the streets of New York with simple fly-posters, she has gone on to disseminate her truisms, slogans, memorials and poems through a variety of media. They are enunciated by an unstable register of personae, be it ad-man, stand-up comedian, torturer, victim or evangelist. The sites for her work range from T-shirts and gol ..." |
 | | Lacan and Love A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics (New Formations, No 23 Summer 1994) by Renata Salecl Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 by Lawrence & Wishart Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-85315-764-9, ISBN: 0-85315-764-2 ""New Formations" is a journal of cultural debate, history and theory. It brings new and challenging perspectives to bear on the categories that frame cultural analysis and political action. The journal has covered issues ranging from the seduction of perversity to questions of nationalism and post-colonialism. Contributors open up new zones of enquiry whilst drawing new charts of understanding to explain new formations in contemporary l ..." |
 | | A Passion for Ignorance What We Choose Not to Know and Why by Renata Salecl 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20202-0, ISBN: 0-691-20202-8 "Emma Moersch, “Zur Psychopathologie von Herzinfarkt- Patienten,” Psyche: Zeitschrift. 1. For more on choice and health, see Renata Salecl, The Tyranny of Choice (London: Profile Books, 2010). 2. An example of an immortalist movement is ..." |
 | | Europa28 Writing by Women on the Future of Europe by Asja Bakić, Zsófia Bán, Annelies Beck, Silvia Bencivelli, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Maarja Kangro, Kapka Kassabova, Sofia Kouvelaki, Carine Krecké, Caroline Muscat, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka Nowicka, Tereza Nvotová, Ana Pessoa, Edurne Portela, Julya Rabinowich, Karolina Ramqvist, Apolena Rychlíková, Renata Salecl, Leïla Slimani, Janne Teller, Saara Turunen, Žydrūnė Vitaitė, Gloria Wekker 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Comma Press ISBN-13: 978-1-912697-46-5, ISBN: 1-912697-46-7 "Apolena. Rychlíková. It was six years ago, when I brought my older daughter into this world, that fear for the future struck me for the first time. In my arms I held a tiny, beautiful and defenceless creature, taking her first deep breath in a world that ..." |
 | | Europa28 Writing by Women on the Future of Europe by Asja Bakic, Zsofia Ban, Annelies Beck, Silvia Bencivelli, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Maarja Kangro, Kapka Kassabova, Sofia Kouvelaki, Carine Krecke, Caroline Muscat, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka Nowicka, Tereza Nvotova, Ana Pessoa, Edurne Portela, Julya Rabinowich, Karolina Ramqvist, Apolena Rychlikova, Renata Salecl, Leila Slimani, Janne Teller, Saara Turunen, Zydrune Vitaite, Gloria Wekker 256 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-912697-38-0, ISBN: 1-912697-38-6 "Featuring essays, fictions, and short plays, Europa28 asks what it means to be European today and demonstrates - with clarity and often humour - how women really do see things differently." |
 | | The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 (Paperback) by Leïla Slimani, Janne Teller, Asja Bakić, Zsófia Bán, Annelies Beck, Silvia Bencivelli, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Maarja Kangro, Kapka Kassabova, Sofia Kouvelaki, Carine Krecké, Caroline Muscat, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka Nowicka, Tereza Nvotová, Ana Pessoa, Edurne Portela, Julya Rabinowich, Karolina Ramqvist, Apolena Rychlíková, Renata Salecl, Saara Turunen, Žydrūnė Vitaitė, Gloria Wekker, Jan Carson, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Sarah Hall, Eley Williams, Jack Houston, Jonathan Freedland Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Comma Press ISBN-13: 978-1-912697-35-9, ISBN: 1-912697-35-1 "Per. Cent. Apolena. Rychlíková. It was six years ago, when I brought my older daughter into this world, that fear for the future struck me for the first time. In my arms I held a tiny, beautiful and defenceless creature, taking her first deep breath in a ..." |
 | | The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl 184 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-226-3, ISBN: 1-84765-226-3 "... where the body appears as an immortal machine endlessly capable of transformation. It is present also in art that deals with accidents and catastrophes. The Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides has become a well-known practitioner of so-called 'catastrophe arts', which show dying itself as an artistic practice in order to annihilate the traumatic elements of death. Metinides's rise to fame almost resembles today's reality TV ..." |
 | | Tyranny of Choices by Renata Salecl 208 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42864-8, ISBN: 0-312-42864-2 |
 | | Umbr (a): Incurable by Joan Copjec, Georges Canguilhem, Willy Apollon, Colette Soler, Renata Salecl, Rudi Visker, Mladen Dolar, Sorin Cucu, Andrew Skomra Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2006 by Center For The Study Of Psychoanalysis And Culture ISBN-13: 978-0-9666452-9-3, ISBN: 0-9666452-9-4 "In a remarkable article, Peter Pelbart, a Brazilian therapist, writes: When Deleuze writes about time, he always evokes irregularity: time is decentered, aberrant, savage, paradoxical, floating or even collapsed and baseless [effond(r)é]. It is not an exaggeration to claim that the madness of time, as he elaborates it, communicates directly with the temporality of the madness we call “clinical.” And we know that a great part of the ..." |
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