For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers)
Brand: Verso
Color: Black
Categories: Books, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government


Verso

Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.99 x 8.25 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1844672127
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844672123
Publisher: Verso
Print length: 396 pages
Publication date: January 17, 2008
subtitle: Paperback – January 17, 2008
author: Slavoj Zizek
review: Editorial Reviews Review “The Elvis of cultural theory.”— Chronicle of Higher Education “Žižek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counter-intuitive observation.”— New Yorker “The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.”—Terry Eagleton About the Author Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times , First as Tragedy, Then as Farce , In Defense of Lost Causes , four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.