The Parallax View

by Slavoj Žižek

Book Overview

In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political--and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262512688
• ISBN13: 9780262512688
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher