Slavoj Zizek - Böcker

»Vi får hela tiden höra att det är fem minuter till midnatt, till domedagen, och att det nu är sista chansen att avvärja en katastrof. Men tänk om enda sättet att förhindra katastrofen är att utgå från att den redan har inträffat - att klockan red...

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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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The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if t...

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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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To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj ?i?ek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What ...

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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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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 iek bö...

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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 po...

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Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this ...

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No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of¿The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what r...

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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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We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it ...

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If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj ?i?ek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' along...

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'The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire' Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality?...

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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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The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists an...

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Slavoj ?i?ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happ...

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One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory. The wager of Zizek's The Fragile Absolute - pu...

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As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.A...

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The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his ex...

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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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?i?ek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."-Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation o...

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What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? T...

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Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, w...

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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 Center, h...

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Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj ?i?ek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that wha...

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Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."-Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening com...

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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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