Review of Living In the End Times by Slavoj Zizek

Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An interesting perspective on problems facing the political left in today’s culture. Zizek’s philosophy rests somewhere between cultural critique and pure theory. He uses Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian philosophy to decipher a number of late-capitalist issues such as the clash between civilizations, religious fundamentalism and the rise of a new radical right. In what I see as a nod to Deleuze and Guattari, the book is stru...