Description: An A to Z map of the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek - arguably the most iconoclastic thinkers since Marx and Nietzsche.
Brief description: Sean Sheehan is an independent scholar, having previously taught in the UK and abroad. His publications include The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece (2002), Socrates: Life and Times (2007), Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Sophocles' Oedipus the King: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Review Quotes:
""A cartographic feat: this book captures the hodological logic - rereading, displacement, return - structuring Zizek's universe. It does not reduce his complexity; rather, it traces the pathways connecting Hegel, Lacan and Marx to cinema, politics and ideology. In so doing, it transforms philosophy into a living instrument for deciphering our time and trains the reader in the art of thinking with Zizek"." --Monica del Pilar Uribe, Director of The Prisma - The Multicultural Newspaper
"This is the guide to Zizek we've been waiting for - one that doesn't merely summarize his ideas but teaches us how to inhabit them, tracing the hodological pathways through which Hegel, Lacan, and Marx converge into a genuinely speculative philosophy. Sheehan writes with a rare combination of scholarly precision and infectious enthusiasm, making even the most vertiginous Zizekean paradoxes feel not just navigable but exhilarating. An indispensable companion for anyone who suspects that the real adventure lies not in reading about Zizek but in reading Zizek himself." --Rafael Winkler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa