Alenka Zupancic Books
The Shortest Shadow
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the...
Read MoreThe Odd One In
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Molière to George W. Bush and Borat.Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investiga...
Read MoreWhat IS Sex?
Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But...
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