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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.

Selected bibliography

  • In Defense of Lost Causes (2008)
  • Violence (2008)  Buy this book
  • The Parallax View (2006)  Buy this book
  • Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Žižek, edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (2005)
  • Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (2004)  Buy this book
  • The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (2003)
  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002)
  • The Fragile Absolute or why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? (2000)
  • The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999)
  • The Plague of Fantasies (1997)
  • The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality (1994)
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (1992)
  • The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)

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Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy? · 23 May 2002

Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism · 28 October 1999

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‘You May!’ · 18 March 1999

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