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The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,187 ratings — published 1989
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.17 — 639 ratings — published 2012
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,452 ratings — published 2007
The Parallax View (Short Circuits)
by (shelved 18 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,353 ratings — published 2006
How to Read Lacan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,541 ratings — published 2006
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.89 — 301 ratings — published 2014
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,787 ratings — published 2009
In Defense of Lost Causes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,163 ratings — published 2008
The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,007 ratings — published 2000
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,274 ratings — published 2001
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,916 ratings — published 1991
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.92 — 302 ratings — published 1991
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,421 ratings — published 2018
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.96 — 797 ratings — published 1997
The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.97 — 801 ratings — published 1997
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.73 — 451 ratings — published 2001
Living in the End Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,045 ratings — published 2010
Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,693 ratings — published 2020
Sex and the Failed Absolute (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.11 — 195 ratings — published 2019
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,454 ratings — published 2014
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,267 ratings — published 2012
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.75 — 290 ratings — published 2008
The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.83 — 307 ratings — published 1994
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.81 — 809 ratings — published 2017
Conversations with Žižek (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.86 — 160 ratings — published 2003
Žižek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,485 ratings — published 2014
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits)
by (shelved 7 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.76 — 332 ratings — published 2008
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.95 — 511 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.01 — 294 ratings — published 1995
The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.97 — 65 ratings — published 1982
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.97 — 342 ratings — published 1993
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.80 — 406 ratings — published 1988
Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.57 — 577 ratings — published 2003
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)
by (shelved 6 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.83 — 811 ratings — published 2003
Hegel in a Wired Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.93 — 357 ratings — published 2020
Reading Marx (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.64 — 66 ratings — published
Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.00 — 69 ratings — published 2017
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,245 ratings — published 2015
The Idea of Communism 2: The New York Conference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.73 — 71 ratings — published 2011
Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.30 — 100 ratings — published 2008
The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters (Radical Thinkers)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 4.01 — 157 ratings — published 1996
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.69 — 540 ratings — published 2005
Heaven in Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.74 — 815 ratings — published 2022
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.90 — 834 ratings — published 2000
Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.84 — 975 ratings — published 2011
Demanding the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.72 — 621 ratings — published 2004
Philosophy in the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.46 — 345 ratings — published 2005
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zizek)
avg rating 3.92 — 742 ratings — published 1991
“The opposition between false limitless desires which only bring suffering and the authentic spiritual desire for well-being thus appears problematic: sensual desires are in themselves moderate, constrained to their direct goals; they become infinite and self-destructive only when they are infected by a spiritual dimension. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling knew that spirituality is self-destructive in its longing for infinity, which is why evil is much more spiritual than our sensual reality. In other words, the root of evil is not our egotism but, on the contrary, a perverted self-destructed spirituality which can prompt unnecessary personal self-sacrifice.”
― Against Progress
― Against Progress
“Early in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige", a magician performs a trick with a small bird which disappears in a cage flattened on the table. A small boy in the audience starts to cry, distraught that the bird was killed. The magician approaches him and finishes the trick, gently producing a live bird out of his hand - but the boy is not convinced, insisting that this must be another bird, the dead bird's brother. After the show, we see the magician alone, putting a dead bird squashed into the trash where many other dead birds lie. The boy was right. The trick could not be performed without violence and death, but it relies for its effectiveness upon concealing the squalid, broken residue of what has been sacrificed, disposing of it where no one who matters will see. Therein resides the basic premise of a dialectical notion of progress: when a newer higher stage arrives, there must be a squished bird somewhere.”
― Against Progress
― Against Progress
