A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. Reviews: "Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj." - Judith Butler
"The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades" - Terry Eagleton
"The Giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus." - Village Voice “The Giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.” — Village Voice About the Author: Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is currently Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. His other books from Verso include Mapping Ideology, The Sublime Object of Ideology, For They Know Not What They Do, Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, The Indivisible Remainder. Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, and The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For?.A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. |
