Autor Slavoj Žižek
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only…
'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Žižek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead…
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted…
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing…
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing…
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Zizek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou,…
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis…
Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history…
Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last…
V knize Lacrimae rerum slovinský filozof a kulturní teoretik Slavoj Žižek působivě analyzuje filmová díla věhlasných světových režisérů, přičemž se opírá o filozofické teze Lacana, Heideggera, Hegela a některé psychologické teorie. Při detailní analýze…
Slavoj Žižek je nejnebezpečnější filosof Západu.“ New Republic Socialismus selhal, kapitalismus krachuje – důkazem toho je probíhající ekonomická krize, která zdaleka ještě neskončila a která už možná nikdy neskončí. Co bude následovat? Než si na tuto…
Kam jsme došli a jak se máme nyní zachovat? O jaký druh společnosti stojí za to usilovat? Proč je obtížné představit si alternativní společenské a politické uspořádání? Kde máme hledat základ pro naději? Na tyto a mnohé další otázky se Slavoj Žižek snaží…