Slavoj Zizek: 56 books

Book cover of Organs without Bodies

Organs without Bodies

On Deleuze and Consequences

by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced...

Mao

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Mao

De la pratique et de la contradiction

by Alain Badiou, Mao Tsé-Toung, Slavoj Zizek
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2008

Les textes de Mao Tsé-toung, autrefois entre les mains de la jeunesse révoltée du monde entier, sont aujourd’hui difficiles à trouver, sinon presque oubliés. Parmi ceux qui sont présentés dans ce livre, les uns sont célèbres – Une étincelle peut mettre le feu à toute la plaine, L’impérialisme...
Book cover of Comradely Greetings

Comradely Greetings

The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

by Slavoj Zizek, Nadezhda Tololonnikova
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.” In an extraordinary...
Book cover of Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015

In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.   There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're...
Book cover of Violence
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence....
Book cover of Moins que rien

Moins que rien

Hegel et l'ombre du matérialisme dialectique

by Slavoj Zizek
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2015

La modernité a commencé et se terminera avec Hegel. Au cours des deux derniers siècles, la philosophie occidentale s’est développée dans l’ombre du philosophe de la transition historique vers la modernité et chaque nouveau penseur a essayé en vain de se soustraire à son influence. Aujourd’hui,...
Book cover of Less Than Nothing

Less Than Nothing

Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012

For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition...
Book cover of First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009

Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Žižek...
Book cover of Lenin 2017

Lenin 2017

Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through

by Slavoj Zizek, V. I. Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today V. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, in this new study and collection of Lenin’s original...
Book cover of In Defense of Lost Causes
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009

In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Žižek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger’s seduction by fascism and Foucault’s flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the ‘right...
Book cover of Reading Marx
by Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda, Agon Hamza
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the work of leading Marx scholars Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza,...
Book cover of Event

Event

A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept

by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Žižek explores the meaning of events in this short and digestible book An event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of reality, a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or...
Book cover of El más sublime de los histéricos
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2013

¿Qué sabemos de Lacan? ¿Y de Marx? ¿De Kant? ¿De la democracia y del totalitarismo? ¿De la burocracia y de la servidumbre? ¿De la necesidad y la contingencia? ¿De la representación y las imágenes? ¿Del comunismo y el psicoanálisis? ¿De la deconstrucción y de la filosofía analítica?...
Book cover of Antígona
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 8, 2017

"Antígona contra las injustas leyes del Estado. Antígona defendiendo las leyes del corazón. Antígona frente a la ceguera complaciente. Antígona combatiendo el patriarcado. Son muchas y muy diversas las lecturas que se han hecho del clásico de Sófocles, de Platón a Judith Butler, pasando...
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