On Practice & Contradiction Pa
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Pub. Date: 2007-01-17
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Summary
These earlyphilosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and theirclarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of alltime. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporaryculture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettlingconclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
Author Biography
Mao Tse-Tung was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He led the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.
Table of Contents
| A single spark can start a prairie fire | p. 31 |
| Oppose book worship | p. 43 |
| On practice : on the relation between knowledge and practice, between knowing and doing | p. 52 |
| On contradiction | p. 67 |
| Combat liberalism | p. 103 |
| The Chinese people cannot be cowed by the atom bomb | p. 106 |
| US imperialism is a paper tiger | p. 108 |
| Concerning Stalin's economic problems of socialism in the USSR | p. 112 |
| Critique of Stalin's economic problems of socialism in the USSR | p. 117 |
| On the correct handling of contradictions among the people | p. 130 |
| Where do correct ideas come from? | p. 167 |
| Talk on questions of philosophy | p. 169 |
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