In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? This work takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should reappropriate several lost causes, and looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past.
The most dangerous philosopher in the West-- Adam Kirsch * The New Republic *
Addictively eclectic ... He contrives to leave the reader, as usual, both exhilarated and disoriented, standing in the middle of a scorched plain strewn with the rubble of smashed idols. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *
A wealth of political and philosophical insight. -- Terry Eagleton * The Times Literary Supplement *
A monument to imaginative, risk-taking and rigorous scholarship. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Exhilarating, inspiring, thought-provoking. -- David Schneider * Prospect *
Outrageous, provocative and entertaining. -- Terry Eagleton
Addictively eclectic ... He contrives to leave the reader, as usual, both exhilarated and disoriented, standing in the middle of a scorched plain strewn with the rubble of smashed idols. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *
A wealth of political and philosophical insight. -- Terry Eagleton * The Times Literary Supplement *
A monument to imaginative, risk-taking and rigorous scholarship. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Exhilarating, inspiring, thought-provoking. -- David Schneider * Prospect *
Outrageous, provocative and entertaining. -- Terry Eagleton
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 | 9781844674299 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844674290 |
| Title | In Defense of Lost Causes |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2009-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 530 |
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