PublishedVerso, January 2009 |
ISBN9781844673001 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13.2cm × 2.3cm |
The Sublime Object of Ideology: Slavoj Zizeks first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the Elvis of cultural theory, and todays most controversial public intellectual.
His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokesall to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy.
