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The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated.

Disparities explores contemporary 'negative' philosophies from Catherine Malabou's plasticity, Julia Kristeva's abjection and Robert Pippin's self-consciousness to the God of negative theology, new realisms and post-humanism and draws a radical line under them. Instead of establishing a dialogue with these other ideas of...

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....

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.

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...

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...