Slavoj Zizek. Verso, $69.95 (1,024p) ISBN 978-1-84467-897-6
In this rigorous examination of Hegel’s philosophical legacy, famed Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Zizek (Living in the End Times) demonstrates how deeply Hegel’s ideas have pervaded Western thought and culture for the past 200 years,...
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Slavoj Zizek. Verso (Norton, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-78168-042-1
Renegade philosopher and cultural critic Zizek (Living in the End Times) again attempts to goad us from our comfortable political positions and rethink the philosophical and social meaning of 2011’s major protest movements—including the Arab Spring...
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Slavoj Zizek. MIT, $17.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-262-02671-0
Jokes should be taken with utmost seriousness, while somber theory should be dismantled with humor is ultimately the lesson of this collection of gags and witticisms culled from the Slovenian thinker's many works of political philosophy. It distills
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Slavoj Zizek, Author . Verso $26 (188p) ISBN 978-1-84467-001-7
As Slovenian public intellectual and provocateur Zizek puts it in his pungent sequel to Welcome to the Desert of the Real
, a major motivational problem with the U.S.'s Iraq adventure has been "too many
reasons for the war." As each...
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Slavoj Zizek, Author . MIT Press $24.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-262-24051-2
A Lacanian-Hegelian philosopher and pop culture critic who divides his time between America and Slovenia, Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability, and his new volume provides perhaps the...
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Slavoj Zizek, Author . Picador $14 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-42718-4
In this provocative and brilliantly argued work, philosopher Zizek takes readers on an intellectual and artistic tour—drawing upon Picasso’s Guernica
, Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan’s films, Michel Houellebecq’s...
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Slavoj Zizek, Author . Verso $12.95 (157p) ISBN 978-1-84467-428-2
The charismatic and contentious Zizek (The Sublime Object of Ideology
) turns his versatile intelligence and acute ear for irony to a critique of contemporary capitalism. Given the recent financial crisis, Zizek argues that it is now “impossibl
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Slavoj Zizek, edited by Yong-june Park. Polity (Wiley, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-7456-7229-8
Asked at the end of this slim volume what "the most urgent theoretical question of our time," Zizek (The Year of Dreaming Dangerously), the seemingly ubiquitous Slovenian philosopher, urges his audience to "redefine and rethink the limits of the...
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Slavoj Žižek. Melville House, $18.99 ISBN 978-1-61219-003-7
Philosopher and cultural critic Žižek (Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors) continues to offer provocative thoughts on how people should deal with a myriad of daunting challenges, but if his goal is to connect with a wide...
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Slavoj Žižek. Seven Stories, $23.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64421-419-0
“Multiple kinds of self-destruction” threaten modern civilization, making the future seem like a “fixed point,” according to this thought-provoking treatise from philosopher Žižek (Christian Atheism). He argues that the solution to this predestined...
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