Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek)
User Review - Shawn - GoodreadsI cannot write to the impact that Slavoj Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology has had upon Lacanian Psychoanalyis or Marxist Criticism. I cannot even lie enough to tell you, dear reader, that I ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Jeremy Allan - GoodreadsIt's common knowledge that Zizek is frequently at his best while recounting jokes in order to illustrate a philosophical concept, and the dirtier the jokes the better. What do I have to add to that ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek)
User Review - David Williamson - GoodreadsA book with moments of real cutting insight. Zizek is a writer of exciting theory, he uses ideas and concepts that are attempts to readdress our perception of reality, to shake our metaphysical tree ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Michael Meeuwis - GoodreadsWell, wasn't this fun? More, and better jokes than I was anticipating. I guess this is Zizek before it went to his head? As I was reading this, I kept thinking that I wished it could be rewritten in a ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Nunes - GoodreadsHow Did Marx Invent the Symptom?: "An ideology really succeeds when even the facts which at first sight contradict it start to function as arguments in its favor." Ok, what the hell does that mean? I ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek)
User Review - The Chameleon - GoodreadsIt's hard to rate a philosophical text in comparison to fictional texts. Therefore I feel that to rate this book as a read in itself is very short-sighted. I think Zizek's Sublime Object of Ideology ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Zach Slanger - GoodreadsThis was my first time reading one of Zizek's major works, I definitely enjoyed it. It really helps to have some knowledge of Lacanian psychoanalysis beforehand: first of all, so that you can have a ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Ted Edwards - GoodreadsZizek isn't always as clear as one might hope, but he's just about the best we've got at the moment.. Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - John - GoodreadsRead the first three chapters. So dense, but so many "aha!" moments on the way through. Zizek combines Marxist commodity and ideology theory with Lacanian psychoanalytics to suggest that identity ... Read full review
Review: The Sublime Object of Ideology
User Review - Jason - Goodreadsso far a really good look into post-marxist thought... i've always had a love/hate relationship with socialism, mostly because i think the system is sound, but humanity is too deeply self serving to ... Read full review
