Zizek’s new philosophical masterwork. In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century Communism. To bring materialism up to date, Zizek proposes a new foundation for dialectical materialism. He argues that dialectical materialism is the only...
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown. Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the...
Światowej sławy filozof Slavoj Žižek wyjaśnia, w jaki sposób możemy znaleźć wyjście z kryzysu kapitalizmu. To, że kapitalizm ma kłopoty jest jasne. Dlaczego więc nie potrafimy znaleźć innej drogi? Dlaczego wszyscy, od polityków przez intelektualistów aż po zwykłych obywateli, zachowujemy się, jakby ten system był naszą jedyną możliwością. Kłopoty w raju to diagnoza stanu globalnego kapitalizmu, ideologicznych ograniczeń, z jakimi mamy do czynienia w codziennym życiu, oraz ponurej...
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Žižek argues in this new study and collection of original texts, Lenin’s true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts...
Slavoj Žižek’s masterwork on the Hegelian legacy. For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the dominant philosopher of the epochal historical transition to modernity; a period...
Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.” The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, the imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual property, the forthcoming struggle for raw materials, food and water), and the explosions of social divisions...
Unser Planet wurde von einer beispiellosen globalen Pandemie erfasst. Wer könnte ihre tiefere Bedeutung besser ergründen, ihre schwindelerregenden Paradoxien besser aufzeigen und über die Folgen und deren Tragweite eindringlicher spekulieren als der einflussreiche slowenische Philosoph Slavoj Žižek – und das auf atemberaubende, schweißtreibende Art und Weise? Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der der größte Ausdruck von Liebe darin besteht, zum Objekt seiner Zuneigung Distanz zu halten; in der...
Was haben Heuschreckenschwärme, Schweine mit verdrahtetem Gehirn oder die Verkaufszahlen von Sexpuppen mit der Corona-Pandemie zu tun? Sehr viel – glaubt man dem «Riesen von Lubliana», dem unnachahmlichen Philosophen Slavoj Žižek. In dieser fulminanten Fortsetzung seines Buches Pandemie! COVID-19 erschüttert die Welt widmet sich Slavoj Zizek den ungewöhnlicheren Aspekten der Corona-Pandemie. Er untersucht die Auswirkungen von Fehlernten auf unsere Nahrungsmittelversorgung, die weltweite...
