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Politics & Social Sciences
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
With irrepressible humor, Slavoj iek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the... See More
A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos populismos - e como... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the... See More
The "formidably brilliant" ?i?ek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis. If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from... See More
Slavoj ?i?ek 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... See More
Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj ?i?ek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining... See More
Poetry & Drama
Politics & Social Sciences
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others -- including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis -- to... See More
Slavoj ?i?ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In ?i?ek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political -- and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. The Parallax View is Slavoj ?i?ek's most substantial... See More
Self-Help & Counselling
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective. Slavoj ?i?ek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj ?i?ek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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 ?i?ek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable)... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. "What matters is not so much that ?i?ek is... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
?i?ek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of... See More
Essays & Correspondence
"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In this new book, Slavoj ?i?ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of ?i?ek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture... See More
The Cartesian cogito -- the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am" -- is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and... See More