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Slavoj Zizek
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The Plague of Fantasies, Second Edition (The Essential Zizek) |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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320 |
| Date: |
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2009-01-05 |
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1844673030 |
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0.84 pounds |
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5.16 x 0.98 x 7.56 inches |
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Second Edition |
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1 Owain (United Kingdom) |
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1 Dec (United Kingdom) |
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Product Description
Modern audiovisual media have spawned a ‘plague of fantasies’, electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions—whether those of digital technology or the speculative market.
Into this arena, enters iek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references—explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter—to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.
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http://bookmooch.com/1844673030 |
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