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Absolute Recoil - Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
"In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century C ...Show more
Against The Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Žižek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future. ...Show more
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as po ...Show more
Christian Atheism - How to Be a Real Materialist by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Zizek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' alongside the Pauline thought of the New Testament has led ...Show more
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. 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 i ek frames the moral ...Show more
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy
As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at suc ...Show more
How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Reference | Series: How to Read Ser.
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire." - Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality? Slavoj Zizek's passionate defence of Lacan reasserts ...Show more
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as-administration? In this major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Z ...Show more
Lenin 2017 - Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin's thought is still important todayV. I. Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin's original texts, Slavoj ...Show more
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight - Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find our ...Show more
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
The latest analysis from "the most despicable philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech. In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. ...Show more
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Non-Fiction
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 r ...Show more