Zizek's Politics

Slavoj Zizek is perhaps the most important original and enigmatic philosopherswriting today. Many readers both inside and outside of the academy have beenintrig... » 

Slavoj Zizek is perhaps the most important original and enigmatic philosopherswriting today. Many readers both inside and outside of the academy have beenintrigued by both the man and his writing yet given the density of his proseand the radical views he often espouses they have struggled to get a handle onhis basic positions. He draws upon and makes continual reference to thechallenging concepts of Kant Hegel Marx Lacan and Badiou. His prose isdense and frenetic and his dialectical twists and turns seem to make itimpossible to attribute to him any specific position he celebrates St. Pauland orthodox Christians even as he engages in a spirited defense of Lenin.Zizeks Politics will synthesize Zizeks myriad political writings into asystematic theory and put his theory into dialogue with key concepts andpositions in contemporary political thought. It will provide readers with amuch needed critical introduction to the political thought of one of theworlds most widely known and eccentric thinkers. «