In a compelling and unusual experiment, three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as ...

A philosophical and political explorationof theconstruction of popular identities.

From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by an attempt to negate the inherently conflictual nature ...

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 Hitchcock's Rear ...

The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text discusses the different conceptions ...

In this new, systematic exposition of the foundations of his theory, Slavoj Zizek explores this question through a detailed and rigorous confrontation with predominant ...

This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding ...

Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a nature deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source ...