Universal Exception

Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York.

• The Labour of Theory: Introducing the Work of Slavoj Zizek Part I: The Other's Enjoyment 1. Beyond Discourse-Analyis 2. The Actuality of Ayn Rand 3. The Fetish of the Party 4. Why are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst not Fascists? 5. Leni Riefenstahl: Will She Ever Die? 6. Why is Wagner Worth Saving? Part II: Concrete Universality 7. Eastern European Liberalism and its Discontents 8. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism 9. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism' 10. Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics

"'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.' Terry Eagleton 'One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left.' TLS The Universal Exception is the second volume of the collected key writings of Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today."