The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (Wo Es War) [Paperback]

Slavoj Zizek (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 086091688X | ISBN-13: 978-0860916888 | Publication Date: December 1996

The recent experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author's analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of "The Crying Game" and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Verso (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 086091688X
• ISBN-13: 978-0860916888
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,862,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"The most dangerous philosopher in the West," (says Adam Kirsch of The New Republic) Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce;" "Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle;" "In Defense of Lost Causes;" "Living in the End Times;" and many more.