In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
From a provocative redemption of Heidegger's engagement with the Third Reich as "a right step in the wrong direction," to reasserting class struggle as the reality of global capitalism, to a defense of the emancipatory legacy of Christianity against New Age spiritualism, this book confronts failures of contemporary theory and proposes resolutions.
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counterintuitive observation* New Yorker *
The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high science since Anti-Oedipus. * The Village Voice *
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. * Guardian *
Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. * Publishers Weekly *
The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high science since Anti-Oedipus. * The Village Voice *
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. * Guardian *
Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. * Publishers Weekly *
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844671083 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844671089 |
| Title | In Defense of Lost Causes |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2008-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 504 |
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