In defense of lost causes
By: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781786630797
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Ideology; Postmodernism
Description: Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theorist Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several 'lost causes'.
Notes: "The Essential Žižek"--cover & spine.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-518) and index.