Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is ...
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Lette...
Slavoj Zizek"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note ...
Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj iek explores the meaning of events in this short and digestible book An event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of ...
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoy...
Slavoj ZizekThe eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture.Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such ho...
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 r...
In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud cited the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you intact, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Suc...
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power...
Slavoj ZizekThe latest book 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 star...
Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World
Slavoj ZizekAs an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its co...
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles w...
Slavoj ZizekCalled "the Elvis of cultural theory" by The New York Times, popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek, looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming Euro...
The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelli...
Slavoj ZizekThe maverick philosopher combines Schelling with popular film for a fascinating study of modern life.The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writ...
The Parallax View (Short Circuits)
Slavoj ZizekThe Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in obs...
The Relevance of the Communist Manife...
Slavoj ZizekNo other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth centu...
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of ...
Slavoj ZizekIn Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we...
Žižek's Jokes: (Did you hear the on...
Slavoj ZizekŽižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy."A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."―Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but e...