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A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name - 34 Untimely Interventions by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Home and Garden
With irrepressible humor, Slavoj ?i?ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and Center, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly u ...Show more
Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy and Religion
At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism has not yet risen to the challenge of relativity ...Show more
Absolute Recoil - Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Culture
"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: Politics
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: Politics
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: Culture
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
Comradely Greetings - The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Slavoj Zizek and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Category: Culture
"We count ourselves among the rebels who court storms, who hold that the only truth lies in perpetual search." - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova "I cannot tell you how proud I am to be in contact with you - You show all of us the way to combine these right insights with simple courage." - Slavoj Zizek In an extr ...Show more
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality : Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Culture | Series: Radical Thinkers Classic Editions
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis. Three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics.
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophi ...Show more
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosoph ...Show more