Mad World

War, Movies, Sex

Slavoj iek author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:OR Books

Published:11th Jan '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Mad World cover

  • Reviews likely: Kirkus ReviewsPublishers WeeklyThe New York TimesThe New York Review of BooksThe Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Review of BooksThe GuardianThe ObserverThe Times Literary SupplementThe London Review of BooksThe NationThe New RepublicJacobinCounterPunch
  • Interviews likely: The Joe Rogan ExperienceUnder the Skin with Russell BrandThe Owen Jones ShowJacobinInterviewBad FaithChapo Trap HouseRed ScareGoing UndergroundGive Them an Argument
  • Excerpts likely: JacobinThe PointThe BafflerAmerican Affairs, RT
  • Book launch in New York

In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana’s most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics in India to the prospects for a new Cold War. 

Ever attentive to moments where the bizarre and the epic join forces, among the questions Žižek considers here are: Is the giant orgy, planned to take place in Ukraine in the event of a Russian nuclear attack, really all that morbid? And what should society do, whether on the big screen or the battlefield, in preparation for the end of the world?

Agree with him or not, Žižek rarely fails to provoke in a productive fashion. By examining matters through a lens that is bold and original, and often joyfully outlandish, Žižek helps us to better grasp a world in which, increasingly, the dominant motif is one of madness.

“[The] master of the counterintuitive observation.”
The New Yorker

“The most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
The New Republic

“Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek.”
New York Review of Books

ISBN: 9781682194492

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

200 pages