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Slavoj A iA ek, 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, hi...

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There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major ne...

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The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint tha...

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Är psykoanalysen död? Det kan förefalla så - nya vetenskapliga modeller, förändrade kliniska behandlingsmetoder och nya samhällsnormer tycks alla bekräfta bilden av den psykoanalytiska teorin som ett överspelat paradigm. Slavoj Zizek vill ompröva ...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel utgör på många sätt portalfiguren för de senaste två århundradenas filosofi och politiska teori. Såväl marxismen som existentialismen, fenomenologin och den kritiska teorin, ja även den moderna analytiska filosofin, u...

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In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Zizek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain B...

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For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring his dominan...

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With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures...

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Responding to the ongoing "objectal turn" throughout contemporary humanities and social sciences, the eleven essays in Subject Lessons present a sustained case for the continued importance-indeed, the indispensability-of the category of ...

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Att göra åtskillnad mellan kommunismens löften och 1900-talets totalitära tragedier är ingen enkel uppgift. Men i en värld som hotas av miljömässiga katastrofer, nya former av apartheid och oöverstigliga klyftor mellan inkluderade och exkluderade ...

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Finns det någon mening med att kalla sig "demokrat" i en samtid där praktiskt taget alla kallar sig demokrater? Kan ett begrepp som tycks kunna betyda både allt och inget fortfarande ha ett meningsfullt politiskt innehåll? I föreliggande...

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Slavoj Zizek's 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 ...

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Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions--whether those of digital technolo...

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iek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy.A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of iekis...

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The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and Lacan, as well as frequent references to popula...

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What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.F...

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In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any ot...

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Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment a...

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With irrepressible humor, Slavoj i ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and ...

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In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant's philosophical revolution and in so doing opened up the way for a viable critique of Hegel....

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Det talas i dag om politikens död. Tron på en kollektiv politisk befrielse har ersatts av individuella livsstilar och riskhantering. Det som en gång sades vara politikens förlängning, kriget, blivit det ord som i stället för politik ska uttrycka k...

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In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist pa...

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The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalte...

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As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences? We...

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Slavoj i ek, 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, histo...

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In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political-and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work t...

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På persiska finns ett underbart uttryck, war nam nihadan, som betyder "att mörda någon, begrava hans kropp och låta blommor växa över liket för att dölja det". År 2011 bevittnade vi (och deltog i) en rad skakande händelser, från den arab...

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"In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to ...

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Attentaten mot tvillingtornen den 11 september 2001 och finanskraschen under hösten 2008 var kanske de två mest definierande händelserna under 2000-talets första decennium. Ändå är det få som har sett något samband mellan dem. Enligt Slavoj ¿i¿ek ...

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