THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: Žižek and the Balkans

Slavoj Žižek’s view of the Balkans has recently been critiqued as procolonial, in that he casts the Balkans as the unconscious of Europe and therefore deprives it of the cogito, which remains definitive of Europe. This critique, with its Cartesian and Lacanian implications, bears on the very constit...

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Matična publikacija: European journal of English studies
Volume 17 (2013), Issue 2 ; str. 160-175
Glavni autor: Jukić, Tatjana (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825577.2013.797198#.Ug4QSl1jZMs
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/current#.Ug38FV1jZMu
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