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Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism has not yet risen to the challenge of relativity ...Show more
Absolute Recoil - Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"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 Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century C ...Show more
Against The Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Žižek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future. ...Show more
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as po ...Show more
Christian Atheism - How to Be a Real Materialist by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Zizek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' alongside the Pauline thought of the New Testament has led ...Show more
Comradely Greetings - The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Slavoj Zizek and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"We count ourselves among the rebels who court storms, who hold that the only truth lies in perpetual search." - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova "I cannot tell you how proud I am to be in contact with you - You show all of us the way to combine these right insights with simple courage." - Slavoj Zizek In an extr ...Show more
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Four Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Totalitarianism has always had a precise strategic function: to guarantee the liberal democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy as the two-faced twin of Right-wing dictatorships. Instead of providing yet another systematic exposition of the history of this notion, Zizek ...Show more
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosoph ...Show more
Event: Philosophy in Transit by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy What is really happening when something happens? In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj Zizek ...Show more
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" - Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democrat ...Show more
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj i ek frames the moral ...Show more
For They Know Not What They Do Enjoyment As A Political Factor by Slavoj Zizek
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Radical Thinkers | Reading Level: good
An analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.