The plague of fantasies / Slavoj Zizek.

By:

Žižek, Slavoj

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The essential ŽižekPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2008.Description: xxiv, 320 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781844673032 (pbk.)
1844673030 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

140 ZIZ

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	140 ZIZ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100379214

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions--whether those of digital technology or the speculative market.

Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references--explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter--to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.

Reissued with a new preface by the author - Main text originally published: 1997.

Includes index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizek, and many more.