The Ticklish Subject :The Absent Centre of Political Ontology - The Essential Zizek
The Ticklish Subject :The Absent Centre of Political Ontology - The Essential Zizek
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5 January, 2009
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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology: A specter is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject. In this book Slavoj Zizek unearths a subversive core to this elusive specter, and finds within it the indispensable philosophical point of reference for any genuinely emancipatory project.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781844673018 |
| ISBN10 | 1844673014 |
| Number Of Pages | 499 |
| Item Weight | 571 g |
| Product Dimensions | 132 x 198 x 38 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Verso Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 2nd edition |
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The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus. * The Village Voice *
The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades. -- Terry Eagleton
Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism * The Times *
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative. * Guardian *
Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. * Publishers Weekly *
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
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Author's Bio
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.