In Defense of Lost Causes

Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counterintuitive observation.- New Yorker The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high science since Anti-Oedipus .- The Village Voice Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative.- Guardian Zizek is one of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability.- Publishers Weekly