Top 7 Slavoj Žižek Books That You Must Read
List of 7 best Slavoj Žižek Books. Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Communist political activist. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art. His main work is Less Than Nothing, a study on the actuality of Hegelian dialectics. Check out our list.
1. Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.
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2. The Courage of Hopelessness
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless – that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction – that fundamental change can be brought about.
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3. Zizek’s Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) (The MIT Press)
The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. Žižek’s Jokes contains the set-ups and punch lines—as well as the offenses and insults—that Žižek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages.
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4. The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history, and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature, and jokes—all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as serious and sophisticated philosophy.
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5. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
First, as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
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6. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
The Ticklish Subject confronts Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggerian, feminists and New Age obscurantists by unearthing a subversive core to this elusive spectre and finding in this core the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics.
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7. Philosophy in Transit Event
Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Žižek explores the concept of ‘event’, in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy What is really happening when something happens? In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj Žižek, one of the world’s greatest living philosophers, examines the new and highly-contested concept of Event.
