Forfatter fødeår: 1949
Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.
Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book also... Læs mere
Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal democratic hegemony by dismissing the... Læs mere
The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of politics, philosophy, film and psychioanalysis.
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a substitution), as well as the heralded "death of opera" and its cultural function.
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).
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 judaïsme en christendom.
A spectre is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject. This book unearths a subversive core to this elusive spectre.
A fascinating exchange between the punk-philosopher and the philosopher-punk