Slavoj Zizek - Böcker

Historisk utveckling har länge varit synonymt med förbättring. Men vad göra i en global kristid då alternativen till nyliberalismens framtidsvisioner bara verkar formuleras av accelerationister, techoligarker och trumpister? Enligt Slavoj ?i?ek är...

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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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»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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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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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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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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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 bok åtar ...

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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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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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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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Historisk utveckling har länge varit synonymt med förbättring. Men vad göra i en global kristid då alternativen till nyliberalismens framtidsvisioner bara verkar formuleras av accelerationister, techoligarker och trumpister? Enligt Slavoj Zizek är...

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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 po...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Ma...

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The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core id...

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A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj ?i?ek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political pos...

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»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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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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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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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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In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj ?i?ek, 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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'One of our best-known living philosophers' Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj ?i?ek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes th...

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