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The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek
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Description for The Sublime Object of Ideology
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes-all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. His recent films The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema and Zizek! reveal a theorist at the peak of his powers and a skilled communicator. Now Verso is making his classic titles, each of which stand as a core ... Read more
Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes-all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. His recent films The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema and Zizek! reveal a theorist at the peak of his powers and a skilled communicator. Now Verso is making his classic titles, each of which stand as a core ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844673001
SKU
V9781844673001
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About Slavoj Žižek
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Sublime Object of Ideology
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more