Forfatter fødeår: 1949
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 pseudo-concrete images which surround us.
De seneste årtier har Slavoj Zizek slået sit navn fast som en af verdens mest fremtrædende filosoffer, og hans mangesidede forfatterskab har berørt alt fra film og tegneserier til politisk... Læs mere
An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft
This is a passionate exploration of opera and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Zizek and Dolar explore the compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, and examine our own desires for opera and death.
Acclaimed, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by the renowned philosopher.
That same inconsistency characterized the justification for the US-led invasion of Iraq is argued in this study.
Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning', this title analyzes Hitchcock's films, ranging from "Rear Window" to "Psycho", and their ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a proliferation of ideological and psychic mechanisms at work.
The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in the worldwide protests of the Arab Spring and against austerity