Trouble in Paradise by Zizek Slavoj
Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, this book explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.
The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic *
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian *
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades -- Terry Eagleton
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *
Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian *
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades -- Terry Eagleton
Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *
Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, The Courage of Hopelessness.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241004968 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241004969 |
| Title | Trouble in Paradise |
| Author | Zizek Slavoj |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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