About Slavoj Žižek

My favored plot of crime novels concerns a person (usually a woman) who is in mortal danger. Unknown forces try to kill her because she knows something she shouldn’t have …
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How would a contemporary Ophelia look in our age when patriarchy is replaced by a globalized perversion and when the confused fragments that compose our digital communication already look like …
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There is absolutely no contradiction between a “pessimist” view of our world as a valley of tears, of our life itself as a decaying corpse of a dead god, of …
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As Lacanians, we should be especially attentive to shifts and inconsistencies in Lacan’s own teaching. Perhaps the greatest shift occurs in the course of his seminar on the ethics of …
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Not only is appearance inherent to reality – what we get beyond reality is a weird split in appearance itself, an unheard-of mode designating “the way things really appear to …
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What makes quantum mechanics so appealing is that even what appears to be a modest experiment yields, upon a closer analysis, radical philosophical implications. So, let’s begin with such an …
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Why am I, as a Hegelian philosopher, so fascinated by quantum mechanics? What we find in quantum physics is something that is usually considered an exclusive feature of the symbolic …
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As is well known, Hegel advocated constitutional monarchy as the only appropriate form of political order that fits modern society. His numerous critics see this weird advocacy either as a …
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Hegel’s pages on Beautiful Soul and the “hard heart” in his Phenomenology[1] reverberate today as an uncanny in-advance critique of Political Correctness. Just recall his claim that moral judgment is …
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As Peter Hitchens pointed out, all big solutions (two states, one big democratic state…) sound impossible today, and the only glimmer of hope is the renewal of everyday collaboration and …
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