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In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the "Titanic" to Hitchcocks "Rear Window," from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from "Alien" to the Jewish Joke, the authors acute... Read Full Overview

Slavoj Zizek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.