Fake Your Own Death: Mock-Suicide and the End of Identity in Jean Paul and Žižek
At the end of the film Zizek!, the theorist pretends to throw himself down the center of a spiral staircase. Zizek's mock-suicide foregrounds the dialectical relationship between seriousness and play in his work. Though he pretends to sacrifice his clown persona in order to rescue the serious c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Religion & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 95-119 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jean Paul 1763-1825
/ Žižek, Slavoj 1949-
/ Suicide
/ Suspended animation
/ Identity
/ Loss
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KBB German language area KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
Dialectical theology
B COKER, William B Suicide |
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