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1	The Parallax View more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist "The Parallax View" is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. A parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the 'parallax gap' separating two points between which no synthesis ... see all copies from $8.94! new only from $10.53! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Sublime Object of Ideology more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author's acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $14.19! \| SVS
3	How to Read Lacan more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist "The only thing of which one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire."-Jacques Lacan see all copies from $7.45! new only from $7.45! \| SVS
4	Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek add to wishlist Provides a reading of the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. see all copies from $13.90! new only from $17.67! \| SVS
5	Violence: Six Sideways Reflections more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world. see all copies from $10.22! new only from $10.22! \| SVS
6	The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek add to wishlist In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality - New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism - and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading ... see all copies from $10.49! new only from $11.70! \| SVS
7	For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist With the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis. ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank, Creston Davis (Editor) add to wishlist A militant Marxist atheist and a 'Radical Orthodox' Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Zizek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, 'Radical ... see all copies from $19.52! new only from $19.52! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Plague of Fantasies more books like this by Slavoj Zizek (Editor) add to wishlist Slavoj Zizek is, without doubt, one of the most stimulating and vibrant thinkers of our time, and his idiosyncratic blend of Lacan and Hegel is always sparkling with insight and studded with amusing stories, anecdotes and jokes. In The Plague of Fantasies Zizek approaches another enormous subject with characteristic brio and provocativeness. The ... see all copies from $10.21! new only from $14.38! \| SVS
10	Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old 'joke' about the borrowed kettle: 1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, 2) I returned it to you unbroken, 3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms exactly what it endeavours to deny - that I ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	In Defense of Lost Causes more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj A iA ek 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. Examining ... see all copies from $12.52! new only from $12.52! \| SVS
12 view cover	Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 more books like this by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Slavoj Zizek (Editor) add to wishlist Lenin's writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. In this work, Slavoj Zizek situates the 1917 writings in their historical context. see all copies from $8.98! new only from $19.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heidiggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists ...all are united in their hostility to it. The Ticklish Subject seeks to undermine the common presuppositions of all these crititiqes by posing a provocative ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $12.55! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. see all copies from $7.48! new only from $8.15! \| SVS
15 view cover	Interrogating the Real more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Rex Butler (Editor), Scott Stephens (Editor) add to wishlist "Interrogating the Real" is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture. These essays not only reflect the remarkable breadth and ... see all copies from $12.69! new only from $17.45! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Essential Zizek: The Complete Set (the Sublime Object of Ideology, the Ticklish Subject, the Fragile Absolute, the Plague of Fantasies) more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist Slavoj Zizek's work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes - all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology, as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. His recent films "The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema" ... see all copies from $50.18! new only from $50.18! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Universal Exception more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Rex Butler (Editor), Scott Stephens (Editor) add to wishlist "The Universal Exception" is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Bringing together a broad selection of Zizek's major writings on politics, "The Universal Exception" showcases Zizek's formidable range of interests and his style. The book includes ... see all copies from $5.35! new only from $9.48! \| SVS
18 view cover	On Practice and Contradiction more books like this by Mao Zedong, Slavoj Zizek (Introduction by) add to wishlist These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $9.39! \| SVS
19 view cover	Interrogating the Real: Selected Writings more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist Drawing on the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $20.50!
20 view cover	The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist With typical brio and boldness, Slavoj Zizek argues in The Fragile Absloute that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. Here is a fitting contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire. see all copies from $5.14! new only from $14.19! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on 11 September and Related Dates more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist On September 11, the USA was given the opportunity to realize what kind of a world it was a part of. It might have taken this opportunity - but it did not; instead it opted to reassert its traditional ideological commitments: out with feelings of responsibility and guilt towards the impoverished Third World, we are the victims now! In the months ... see all copies from $6.41! new only from $7.71! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Fright of Real Tears: Krzystof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory more books like this by Slavoj Zizek (Editor) add to wishlist In this study the author challenges both cognitivist-historicist accounts of cinema and conventional film-theory. Arguing that the reading of Lacan operative in the 1970s and 1980s was particularly reductive, he asserts that there is "another Lacan" in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies and critical thought as such can be transformed ... see all copies from $35.35! new only from $36.63!
23 view cover	Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and psychoanalysis. In this deliciously polemical work, Zizek shows Deleuze's connections to both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French ... see all copies from $16.69! new only from $25.62! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Perversion and the Social Relation: Sic IV more books like this by Dennis A Foster (Editor), Slavoj Zizek (Editor), Molly Annerothenberg (Editor) add to wishlist The masochist, the voyeur, the sadist, the sodomite, the fetishist, the pedophile, and the necrophiliac all expose hidden but essential elements of the social relation. Arguing that the concept of perversion, usually stigmatized, ought rather to be understood as a necessary stage in the development of all non-psychotic subjects, the essays in ... see all copies from $11.25! new only from $27.47! \| SVS
25 view cover	Virtue and Terror more books like this by Maximilien Robespierre, John Howe (Translator), Slavoj Zizek (Introduction by) add to wishlist Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation ... see all copies from $9.17! new only from $9.17! \| SVS

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