Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: ideology, mapping
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1995-02-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1859840558
ISBN-13: 9781859840559

Not so long ago, the term ""ideology"" was in considerable disrepute. Its use had become associated with a claim to know a truth beyond ideology, a radically unfashionable position. What then explains the sudden revival of interest in grappling with the questions that ’ideology’ poses to social and cultural theory, as well as to political practice? Mapping Ideology presents a comprehensive sampling of the most important contemporary writing on the subject. Slavoj Zizek’s introductory essay surveys the development of the concept from Marx to the present. Terry Eagleton, Peter

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: phronesis, ideology, object, sublime
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0860919714
ISBN-13: 9780860919711

Zizek takes a look through the Rear Window and other cultural classics at the question of human agency in a postmodern world.

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: times, living
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 184467598X
ISBN-13: 9781844675982

Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.” There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situatio

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: action, thinking, belief
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-06-26
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0415255325
ISBN-13: 9780415255325

What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.From ’cyberspace reason’ to the paradox that is ’Western Buddhism’, On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in sta

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: books, small, ideas, violence
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-07-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427182
ISBN-13: 9780312427184

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.Violence, Žižek states, takes three forms--subj

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: war, fantasies, plague
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1997-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1859841937
ISBN-13: 9781859841938

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: farce, tragedy, first
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2009-10-05
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844674282
ISBN-13: 9781844674282

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown. Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 an