Slavoj Zizek is a figure whose works divide people: it is not surprising since, in this book (reprinted as part of The Essential Zizek series) he identifies four poles to his system of thought–Hegelian philosophy, Marxist political-economic thought, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Christian theology. This allows him to draw upon wide ranges of schools of thought and fields of literature and to analyse them according to his particular methods–inevitably, therefore, drawing conclusions which satisfy, outrage, and amuse in various quantities.
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