The eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.
The Elvis of cultural theory.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
Zizek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a
master of the counter-intuitive observation.
*New Yorker*
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of
cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some
decades.
*Terry Eagleton*
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