The Sublime Object of Ideology

Zizek Slavoj

ISBN 10: 8189059130 / ISBN 13: 9788189059132

Published by Navayana Publishing, 2008

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pp. xvi + 240. Seller Inventory # 8298353

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Sublime Object of Ideology

Publisher: Navayana Publishing

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

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.