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Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount.

These original contributions focus on Hegelian analysis and the transformative value of...

Bewältigen oder scheitern? Slavoj Zizek und sein philosophischer Blick auf unsere Zeit

Pandemie, Klimawandel, verzweifelte Flüchtlinge, ein Krieg in Europa: In der Welt regiert das Chaos. Gesellschaftliche Probleme, soziale Ungleichheit und internationale Konflikte wirken erdrückend, Fortschritt scheint kaum mehr möglich. Können kritisches Denken und die moderne Philosophie Antworten finden?

Die »Unordnung unter dem Himmel« erkannte Mao Zedong als eine Chance für Neuanfänge. Aber vielleicht hat die Unordnung mittlerweile den Himmel selbst erreicht?...

Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he 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 of Christianity is explicitly...

What does ‘progress’ mean? Can things get better? And how, when we are constantly battered
on all sides by deepfakes, doomers and disorienting relativisms,can we make any headway at all
in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?

In this collection of iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the deathgrip that neoliberalists,
Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have...

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 himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of...

In this major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should re-appropriate several 'lost causes, ' and look 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,...

These original contributions focus on Hegelian analysis and the transformative value of...

An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a...