Zizek argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. He argues that the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation can be found in St Paul, finding an unlikely ally...

The leading philosopher of our time tackles the demise of liberalism, from the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown. von Zizek, Slavoj

"Die große Regression: Eine internationale Debatte über die geistige Situation der Zeit" ist eine Sammlung von Essays, herausgegeben von Heinrich Geiselberger, in der verschiedene prominente Intellektuelle, darunter Slavoj Žižek, die...

Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. His previous books...

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...

Das fragile Absolute

"Ich höre Dich mit meinen Augen: Anmerkungen zu Oper und Literatur" von Slavoj Žižek ist eine Sammlung von Essays, in denen der bekannte Philosoph und Kulturkritiker die Beziehung zwischen Oper und Literatur untersucht. Žižek analysiert,...

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology von Zizek, Slavoj

Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the...

The maverick philosopher combines Schelling with popular film for a fascinating study of modern life. von Zizek, Slavoj

In "Totalitarismus: Fünf Interventionen zum Ge- oder Missbrauch eines Begriffs" setzt sich Slavoj Žižek mit dem Begriff des Totalitarismus auseinander und hinterfragt dessen Anwendung in politischen Diskursen. Žižek analysiert, wie der...

One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He...