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Introduction. <p>1. Contexts and horizons: Opening the Space of Philosophy.</p> <p>2. The Madness of Reason: Encounters of the Real Kind.</p> <p>3. Subject of Modernity: Virtuality and the Fragility of the Real.</p> <p>4. Tolerance and the Intolerable: Enjoyment, Ethics and Event.</p> <p>5. Miracles do happen: Globalization(s) and Politics</p>

"Slavoj Žižek has put the Soul back into philosophy." <i>TLS</i><br /> <p>"Audacious and vertiginous, this book is everything one expects from him, a heady mix of psychoanalysis, politics, theology, philosophy, and cultural studies that will leave the reader both exhausted and exhilarated. For those wishing to gain a brief overview of his central thesis or his application of Lacan to cultural studies, this is an informal and opportune text, an excellent introduction to Žižek by Žižek." -<i>Marcus Pound, Bristol University</i><br /> </p> <p>"I am very impressed by how Žižek continues book after book to clarify, revise and deepen his thinking. This volume-ideal for the beginner, but with plenty to offer the practiced reader of Žižek as well- is a superb snapshot of where this most restless, iconoclastic and essential of contemporary theorists stands at the moment." – <i>Henry Staten, University of Washington, Seattle.</i><br /> </p> <p>"Glyn Daly succeeds here in punctuating the febrile forward rush of one of the most distinctive and influential voices of our time, making it curl a little more deliberately around questions many would want to ask Žižek responds with wily candour, offering up original and substantive theoretical speculation alongside bits of professional biography and new glosses on his favorite cultural examples. As invigorating and substantial a conversation as any one is likely to come upon. – <i>Joan Copjec, author of Imagine</i> There’s No Woman</p>

<b>Slavoj Zizek</b> is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Ljubljana University, Slovenia.<br /> <p><b>Glyn Daly</b> is at University College, Northampton.</p>

In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. <br /> <p>Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher who trained as a Lacanian. He is at the forefront of philosophical, political and cultural debate and is known for his theories, based largely on a Lacanian analysis, on a wide range of subjects, including globalization, cyberspace, film, music and opera. His work continues to provoke controversy and to transform the way we think about these and other issues of popular culture and politics. In conversation with Glyn Daly, Žižek elaborates on a range of topics which encompass the purpose of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the films of Stanley Kubrick, the notion of enjoyment, Marxism, de Sade, Nazism and much more.<br /> </p> <p>This book will provide readers with a unique glimpse at Žižeks humour and character, and is an ideal introduction to his work. At the same time it offers new material and fresh perspectives, which will be of interest to followers of his writings, appealing to the general reader as well as to undergraduates and graduates studying social theory, cultural studies and politics.</p>

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