Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[Žižek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker … Žižek is at heart really a close reader and a seriously inventive one.

• Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our OppressionFinale: Subjective Destitution As A Political CategoryBibliographyIndex

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[Žižek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker … Žižek is at heart really a close reader and a seriously inventive one.

• Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our OppressionFinale: Subjective Destitution As A Political CategoryBibliographyIndex

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[Žižek] could never be as dull a writer. He is a great caller of things stupid, which is a skill too little practised in a world dedicated to avoiding offence. But he also has genuine enthusiasms that constantly surprise the reader, such as a brilliant few pages on Shostakovich and, later, on the film Joker … Žižek is at heart really a close reader and a seriously inventive one.

• Ouverture: Living In A Topsy-Turvy World1. Where Is The Rift? Marx, Capitalism, And Ecology2. A Non-binary Difference? Psychoanalysis, Politics, And Philosophy3. Surplus-Enjoyment, Or, Why Do We Enjoy Our OppressionFinale: Subjective Destitution As A Political CategoryBibliographyIndex