Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Zizek | 
The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle | 
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud | 
Anti-Oedipus
by Gilles Deleuze | 
The Doors of Perception
by Aldous Huxley | 
Democracy and Education
by John Dewey | 
The Lies That Bind
by Kwame Anthony Appiah | 
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill | 
On Suicide
by David Hume | 
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke | 
A Discourse on Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 
Discourse on Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli | 
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley | 
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill | 
The Way of Men
by Jack Donovan | 
Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti | 
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
by Baltasar Gracian | 
A Treatise of Human Nature
by David Hume | 
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume |
In this provocative book, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish joke, Zizek's acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion that make up human society.