Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

by Slavoj Žižek

Book Overview

The "formidably brilliant" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Zizek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Zizek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036819
• ISBN13: 9780262036818
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent book, short version of Slavoj's understanding of Ontology

A really great book. I've read it 3-4 times now. Succinct and organized (for Slavoj).