The Sublime Object of Ideology

Zusatztext 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 ?i?ek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. Guardian ?i?ek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. Publishers Weekly ?i?ek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized! and is master of the counterintuitive observation New Yorker Informationen zum Autor Slavoj iek 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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times , First as Tragedy, Then as Farce , In Defense of Lost Causes , four volumes of the Essential iek, and many more. Klappentext Slavoj Zizek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. He explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. Zusammenfassung Looks at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. This book explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

ldquo;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

“Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative.”—Guardian

“Žižek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability.”—Publishers Weekly

“Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation”—New Yorker

Autorentext
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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Klappentext

Slavoj Zizek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. He explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

Zusammenfassung
Looks at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. This book explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.