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The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies. Featuring a brand new essay from Zizek himself, this is an…
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Jodi Dean
A critical introduction to the political thought of one of the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today.
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The Zizek Dictionary brings together leading Zizek commentators from across the world to present a companion and guide to Zizekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a key…
Tony Myers
An engaging guide to Zizek’s key ideas, explaining the main influences on Zizek’s thought, most crucially his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis, using examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life.
Over the last three decades Slavoj Zizek has become an iconic figure of intellectuel engage and his works have engendered ongoing reflection within as different academic disciplines as philosophy, literature…
Repeating Zizek’s contributors read the influential and controversial Slavoj Zizek as a philosopher. They place his work in the Western philosophical tradition and analyze it using his own theses, concepts…
Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek have been, like Zizek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially…
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Slavoj Zizek,Glyn Daly
In this new book, Slavoj i ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of i ek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber…
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Presents the authors’ conversations which illustrate the thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
Paul A. Taylor
* One of the first volumes in Polity’s new Theory and Media series. * Provides a concise introduction to the cult theorist Zizek specifically for students of media and cultural…
Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory…
Zizek’s work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis…
Jacques Lacan (1901-1980) is undoubtedly the central figure of psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. The texts selected here present the entire scope of the Lacan debate.
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice the giant of Ljubljana , is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis (and life).
One of the most famous living philosophers provides a philosophical analysis of the meaning of events in this deeply interesting and provocative book (The Guardian)
An event can be an…
That same inconsistency characterized the justification for the US-led invasion of Iraq is argued in this study.
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj…
Techno-scientific progress is utterly transforming our world–changing it beyond recognition. Philosopher Slavoj Z iz ek looks at the world of Big Tech, revealing how we find ourselves moving closer and…
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
Franz Zizek
Statistical averages a methodological study. This book, Statistical averages a methodological study, by Franz Zizek, is a replication of a book originally published before 1913. It has been restored by…
…un fructifero intercambio intelectual aunque sin plenas coincidencias con el politologo argentino Ernesto Laclau - Nicolas Mavrakis - La Nacion - 14/ABR/2019
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Translation of: Pandemic! Covid-19 shakes the world
Edited by Julienne Lorz. Text by Slavoj Zizek.
Zizek’s new philosophical masterwork.
What is the basis for belief in an era when globalisation, multiculturalism and big business is the new religion? Renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in…
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The title by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of an inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film…
In Geloof, dat van ‘cyberspace-denken’ tot de paradox van het ‘westerse boeddhisme’ gaat, legt Zizek de vooronderstellingen bloot achter de manier waarop we gewoonlijk over geloof denken, met name in…
With a new introduction by the author
In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his…
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema…
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.
A new, radical Zizekian reading of Hegel - the man and his work - to mark 250 years since his birth.
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Zizek’s philosophical masterwork, now out in paperback
""Die Statistischen Mittelwerte: Eine Methodologische Untersuchung"" ist ein Buch von Franz Zizek, das erstmals im Jahr 1908 ver??????ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch?????ftigt sich mit der Methodik der statistischen Mittelwerte und…
Combines Schelling with popular film for a study of modern life.
Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book also argues that the foundation of a politics of…
Boris Zizek
Die Untersuchung rekonstruiert das Subjekt in seinen kulturhistorischen Formationen als kooperationsorientierten Bewahrungssucher, der sich den jeweiligen Formen des Zusammenlebens gemass formiert, um sich in ihnen bewahren zu koennen.
In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today’s religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
A spectre is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject. This book unearths a subversive core to this elusive spectre.
Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the four riders of the apocalypse
Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through digitalization or the market - and the deluge of…
Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the two-faced twin of Right-wing dictatorships. This…
In Zizek’s long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the parallax gap in the ontological, the scientific, and the political-and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.
