Description
The Sublime Object of Ideology: Slavoj Zizek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
Exploring the ideologies fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
Reviews
The Elvis of cultural theory. * Chronicle of Higher Education *
The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus. * The Village Voice *
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades. -- Terry Eagleton
Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism * The Times *
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. * Guardian *
Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. * Publishers Weekly *
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844673001
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 331g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 23mm