Authors: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN-13: 9781844670611, ISBN-10: 1844670619
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Slavoj Žižek 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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle; In Defence of Lost Causes; Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Living in the End Times, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock; and more.
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.