The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Zizek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. He explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.