Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? This work takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should reappropriate several lost causes, and looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past.

Argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice.

A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.

Features three crucial themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. This book shows how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom.

Argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers and frequent references to popular culture, this title examines the causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world.

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An analysis of the controversial composer's oeuvre. Part of Radical Thinkers series, it combines the brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Marxism with aesthetics and ideology. It comes with an introduction by Slavoj Zizek.

Presents collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators. Drawing upon a range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture.

A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.

Lacan reminds us that psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy. Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of reading, here, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology.

Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book also argues that the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation can be found in St Paul, finding an unlikely ally in the reinvention of a twenty first century Marxism.

Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology and in doing so opens the way for a fresh understanding of social conflict.

Countering the call by some pro-Lacanians for an end to the exegesis of Jacques Lacan's work - and the dismissal by anti-Lacanians of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable, this work argues for Lacan as a paradoxically systematic thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts.

Provides a reading of the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films.

What is the basis for belief in an era when globalisation, multiculturalism and big business is the new religion? Renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling new book.

An analysis of the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics.

Introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ. This book is a guide to cinema and psychoanalysis.

Argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. This book concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event - God becoming human.