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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, the imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual prope ...Show more
Mad World - War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Zizek
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics in India to the prospects for a new Cold War. Ever ...Show more
Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Zizek
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to sta ...Show more
Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Essential Zizek
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for a monumental catastrophe that left an indelible mark on all of subsequent history and political thinking? Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writ ...Show more
Surplus-Enjoyment - A Guide for the Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstan ...Show more
Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky and Slavoj Zizek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Description: Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of ...Show more
The Courage Of Hopelessness: Chronicles Of A Year Of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Aixek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopele ...Show more
The Fragile Absolute by ZIZEK SLAVOJ
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Idea of Communism by Slavoj Zizek
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Contributors Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Antoni Negri, Michael Hardt, Jacques Ranciere, Terry Eagleton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Susan Buck-Morss, Bruno Bosteels, Peter Hallward, Alberto Toscano, Wang Hui and others took part in a landmark conference in London on the idea of communism in 2009. This volume brings ...Show more
The Idea of Communism 2: The New York Conference: Part 2 by Slavoj Zizek
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The very successful first volume followed the 2009 conference called in response to Alain Badiou's "communist hypothesis," where an all-star cast of radical intellectuals put the idea of communism back on the map. This volume brings together papers from the subsequent 2011 New York conference organized ...Show more
The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters by Slavoj Zizek
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser.
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 Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated ...Show more
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality by Slavoj Zizek
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers Ser. | Reading Level: good
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.