Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (Radical Thinkers Set 07)

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (Radical Thinkers Set 07)

by Slavoj Zizek (Author)

Synopsis

Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, i ek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 16 Jan 2013

ISBN 10: 1781680191
ISBN 13: 9781781680193

Media Reviews
Fierce brilliance ... scintillating. --Steven Poole, Guardian (in praise of Living in the End Times)

Never ceases to dazzle. --Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph (in praise of Living in the End Times)

i ek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard. --Observer (in praise of Living in the End Times)

Author Bio
Slavoj i ek 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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential i ek, and many more.