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A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name - 34 Untimely Interventions by Slavoj Zizek
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly u ...Show more
Absolute Recoil - Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
"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
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
Comradely Greetings - The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Slavoj Zizek and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"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
Event: Philosophy in Transit by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy
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
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
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as-administration? In this major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Z ...Show more
Lenin 2017 by Slavoj Zizek
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Zizek shows why Lenin's thought is still important todayLenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in this new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's t ...Show more
Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy
What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, i ek delves into so ...Show more
Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: 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
Surplus-Enjoyment - A Guide for the Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy
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