Universal Exception

Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is International Director at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA and Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• AcknowledgementsPreface to the Paperback EditionEditors' Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's 'Third Way'Section I: The Absent 'Second Way'1. Eastern European Liberalism and Its Discontents2. Why We All Love to Hate Haider3. Heiner Muller Out of JointSection II: Really Existing Socialism4. Why Are Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst Not Fascists?5. The Fetish of the Party6. Georg Lukacs as the Philosopher of Leninism7. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kolkhoz Musicals8. Attempts to Escape the Logic of CapitalismSection III: Really Existing Capitalism9. Multiculturalism, or, The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism10. A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'11. A Plea for 'Passive Aggressivity'12. The Three Faces of Bill Gates13. The Prospects of Radical Politics TodaySection IV: What Is (Not) To Be Done?14. Against the Double Blackmail15. Welcome to the Desert of the Real16. The Iraq War - Where is the True Danger?17. Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France and Related MattersAuthor's Afterword: Where Do We Stand Today?GlossaryIndex