The Plague of Fantasies

Slavoj Zizek

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English

Verso
18 February 2009

Philosophy; States of consciousness

Series: The Essential Zizek

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.

By: Slavoj Zizek
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 383g
ISBN: 9781844673032
ISBN 10: 1844673030
Series: The Essential Zizek
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 18 February 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Slavoj Zizek is the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books and acclaimed as the 'Elvis of cultural theory', is today's most controversial public intellectual.

Reviews for The Plague of Fantasies

The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades. -- Terry Eagleton Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism. * Times of London * Zizek unfolds in this text a theory of the workings of postmodern ideology that is often breathtaking in its scope and acuity. * Postmodern Culture *