For They Know Not What They Do

Zusatztext “The Elvis of cultural theory.”— Chronicle of Higher Education “?i?ek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized! and is a master of the counter-intuitive observation.”— New Yorker “The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis! indeed of cultural theory in general! to have emerged from Europe in some decades.”—Terry Eagleton Informationen zum Autor 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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times , First as Tragedy, Then as Farce , In Defense of Lost Causes , four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more. Klappentext The eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.

Product details

• Authors: Slavoj Zizek
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2008
• EAN: 9781844672127
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-212-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 03
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Political science and theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis