Event
philosophy in transit
Standort:- PI.T : Philosophie : Klassische Texte und Gesamtausgaben
- FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
Verfasser:
Zizek, Slavoj
Verfasser Angabe:
Slavoj Zizek
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Penguin Books
Erscheinungsort:
London
Jahr:
2014
Umfang:
211 S.
Fußnote:
Text: Englisch
ISBN:
978-1-8461-4626-8
Inhalt:
Agatha Christie's 4.50 from Paddington opens on a train from Scotland to London where Elspeth McGillicudy, on a way to visit her old friend Jane Marple, sees a woman strangled in a compartment of a passing train (the 4.50 from Paddington). It all happens very fast and in a blurred vision, so the police don't take Elspeth's report seriously as there is no evidence of wrongdoing; only Miss Marple believes her story and starts to investigate... This is an event at its purest and minimal: something shocking that happens all of a sudden and interrupts the usual flow of things; something that appears out of nowhere, without discernible causes, and whose ontological status is unclear - an appearance without solid being as its foundation. In Christie's novel, the role of Miss Marple is precisely to de-eventalize the event, to explain it away as an occurrence which fits the coordinates of our normal reality.
A subject for which there is not yet an agreed-upon definition within philosophy, Slavoj Žižek explores the terrain of this contestable term in a series of short chapters that examine everything from the event as political revolution and the rise of a new art form to the event as religious belief and falling in love. Event is a mind-blowing, thrilling, accessible book from arguably our greatest living cultural theorist and philosopher.
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