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. Rex Butler is a lecturer at the University of Queensland. Scott Stephens is Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Politics, Brisbane, Australia.

• Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's Third Way; Section I. The Absent Second Way; 1. Eastern European Liberalism and Its Discontents; 2. Why We All Love to Hate Haider; 3. Heiner Muller Out of Joint; Section II. Really Existing Socialism; 4. Why are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst not Fascists?; 5. The Fetish of the Party; 6. Georg Lukacs as the Philosopher of Leninism; 7. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kolkhoz Musicals; 8. Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism; Section III. Really Existing Capitalism; 9. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism; 10. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'; 11. A Plea for 'Passive Aggressivity'; 12. The Three Faces of Bill Gates; 13. The Prospects of Radical Politics Today; Section IV. What is (Not) To Be Done; 16. Against the Double Blackmail; 17. Welcome to the Desert of the Real; 18. The Iraq War-Where is the True Danger?; Author's Afterword: Where Do We Stand Today?; Glossary.

"'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"