Review
"Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj." -- Judith Butler "The Ticklish Subject may be his most focused and most political book to date." -- Lingua Franca "Slavoj Zizek's argument is subtle, witty and impassioned, and this book - his fourteenth in nine years - confirms his status as one of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left." - Times Literary Supplement
Product Description
A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heidiggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists ...all are united in their hostility to it. The Ticklish Subject seeks to undermine the common presuppositions of all these crititiqes by posing a provocative question: What if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core that provides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics.
From the Back Cover
A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. The Ticklish Subject confronts Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggarians, feminists and New Age obscurantists by unearthing a subversive core to this elusive spectre, and by finding in this core the indispensable philosophical point of reference for any genuinely emancipatory politics.
'Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj.' Judith Butler UC Berkeley
'His most political book to date.' Robert S. Boynton Lingue Franca
'Slavoj Zizek's argument is subtle, witty and impassioned, and this book - his fourteenth in nine years - confirms his status as one of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left.' Times Literary Supplement
'Zizek is a one-person culture mulcher ... a fast-forward philosopher of culture for the post-Cold War period.' Village Voice Literary Supplement
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia. His other books for Verso include The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For?, The Sublime Object of Desire, The Plague of Fantasies, The Indivisible Remainder, For They Know Not What They Do, and Metatases of Enjoyment. He is the editor of Mapping Ideology and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock.
