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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.

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...

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?...

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. 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 or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism.

Modes of parallax can be seen in different...

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...

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,...

Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of i ek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style.

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Highway, based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the "ridiculous sublime" is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society.

A master of reversals, Zizek invites the reader to reexamine with him easy assumptions, received opinion, and current critical trends, as well as pose tough questions about the ways in which we understand our world and culture....