Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world’s foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high-profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Žižek’s most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement with...

Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity, more important than all political struggles. But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also...

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ‘Liberal Fascisms’, Slavoj Žižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Žižek enters in this...

Slavoj Žižek revisits his radical interpretation of Antigone 10 years on, elaborating on the original work in daring and surprising ways. This updated text includes an additional essay reflecting on how this play speaks to our contemporary moment more powerfully than ever, as well as a Žižekian version of Sophocles' work. Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of...

The old liberal world order is dying and yet new realities are consistently stillborn. We are, as Slavoj Žižek argues in this arresting new book, stuck in time with only the 'morbid phenomena' of Gramsci's chilling words for company: 'the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid phenomena appears'. These...

Slavoj Žižek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana", returns with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis, and life. His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humour demonstrates how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis—and vice versa. In Enjoy Your Symptom!, Žižek explores the intersection of cinema and psychoanalytic...