Salvoj Zizek is perhaps the most well-known philosopher-cultural critic in the world today: he seems to leave a flurry of ruffled feathers wherever he (intellectually and physically) goes and appalls some just as he inspires others. He is also extremely difficult to summarise in general terms because of the complexity of many of the issues about which he writes and because of his method and procedure for doing philosophy.
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World history represents the development of the Spirit’s consciousness of freedom and the consequent realization of that freedom. This development implies a gradual progress, a series of ever more concrete differentiation, as involved in the concept of freedom. The logical and, even more, the dialectical nature of the concept in general, the necessity of its purely abstract self-development, is treated in Logic (pp.78-9).
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In this brief but extraordinary novel, apparently his 27th and with little sign of slackening off, Philip Roth presents both a very specific story of an individual and a consideration of the human condition. The former is embodied in the figure of the protagonist who, as has often been the case in Roth’s fiction, resembles the author in a number of respects; the latter is embodied in the title.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish writer, principally a dramatist, many of whose works have proven to be enduring favourites on the stage and to have translated well to the screen. His most famous works include Pygmalion (filmed as ‘My Fair Lady’), Arms and the Man and Man and Superman. He was awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar.
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