Zizek’s the Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader’s Guide

＂This compelling guide introduces the influential thinkers and foundational concepts which éZiézek draws on to create 1989’s seminal The Sublime Object of Ideology. Grounding the text’s many and varied references in the work of Peter Sloterdijk, Saul Kripke, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel amongst others helps students encountering this mercurial writer for the first time to understand the philosophical context of his early explorations. Each of éZiézek’s key arguments are unpacked and laid out, alongside an invaluable account of how The Sublime Object of Ideology impacted the critical terrain on which it landed＂--

Rafael Winkler is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Philosophy of Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2018) and editor of Phenomenology and Naturalism (2017) and Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self (2016).