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But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj Žižek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e to Thatcher, \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most dangerous philosopher in the West' - Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades' - Terry Eagleton \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' - \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225142210933,"sku":"9780141979540","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141979540_8d3a6b6e-f989-4edc-96b4-2e13922d7819.jpg?v=1786011771"},{"product_id":"9780141986098","title":"The Courage of Hopelessness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism - Žižek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is,or should be, this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative' - \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' -\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225687175541,"sku":"9780141986098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141986098_00b7e480-81d8-4efb-a56a-3b0d7b7a3b10.jpg?v=1786011110"},{"product_id":"9780262512688","title":"The Parallax View","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the \"parallax gap\" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Parallax View \u003c\/i\u003eis Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the \"parallax gap\" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an \"impossible short circuit\" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In \u003ci\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/i\u003e, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which \"nobody is home\" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls \"the unbearable lightness of being no one\"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/i\u003e not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. 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Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. \u003ci\u003eŽižek's Jokes\u003c\/i\u003e contains the set-ups and punch lines—as well as the offenses and insults—that Žižek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what's the bad news? There is no bad news. There's just the inimitable Slavoj Žižek, disguised as an impossibly erudite, politically incorrect uncle, beginning a sentence, “There is an old Jewish joke, loved by Derrida...“ For Žižek, jokes are amusing stories that offer a shortcut to philosophical insight. He illustrates the logic of the Hegelian triad, for example, with three variations of the “Not tonight, dear, I have a headache” classic: first the wife claims a migraine; then the husband does; then the wife exclaims, “Darling, I have a terrible migraine, so let's have some sex to refresh me!” A punch line about a beer bottle provides a Lacanian lesson about one signifier. And a “truly obscene” version of the famous “aristocrats” joke has the family offering a short course in Hegelian thought rather than a display of unspeakables.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eŽižek's Jokes\u003c\/i\u003e contains every joke cited, paraphrased, or narrated in Žižek's work in English (including some in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in different contexts. 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It centers on the problem of how the Absolute (God) himself, in order to become actual, to exist effectively, has to accomplish a radically contingent move of acquiring material, bodily existence. Never before available in English, this version finally renders accessible one of the key texts of modern philosophy, a text that is widely debated in philosophical circles today.   The Abyss of Freedom is Zizek's own reading of Schelling based upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. It focuses on the notion that Lacan's theory--which claims that the symbolic universe emerged from presymbolic drives--is prefigured in Schelling's idea of logos as given birth to from the vortex of primordial drives, or from what \"in God is not yet God.\" For Zizek, this connection is monumental, showing that Schelling's ideas forcefully presage the post-modern \"deconstruction\" of logocentrism.   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A brilliantly funny, moving and political piece for those who are interested in reading and watching \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e in an entirely new way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503548932469,"sku":"9781350618626","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350618626.jpg?v=1786867253"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-slavoj-zizek.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}