The Plague of Fantasies

“The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.”—Terry Eagleton “Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism.”— Times of London “?i?ek unfolds in this text a theory of the workings of postmodern ideology that is often breathtaking in its scope and acuity.”— Postmodern Culture Informationen zum Autor Slavoj Žižek 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 Žižek , and many more. Klappentext Zizek explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the ever intensifying antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through digitalization or the market - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround us.Explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of our lives - whether through digitalization or the market - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround us.

Product details

• Authors: Slavoj Sisek, Slavoj Zizek, Zizek Slavoj
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9781844673032
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-303-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: The Essential Zizek; The Essential Zizek
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, States Of Consciousness