Author: Zizek, Slavoj

Price: $21.12

Category:Psychology & Counseling
Publication Date:2009-01-05T00:00:01Z
Pages:320
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1844673030
ISBN:13:9781844673032
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 Žižek: 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.