Slavoj Zizek - Collected Philosophical Works (103 books)

* Slavoj Zizek - Collected Philosophical Works (103 books)

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK (b. 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual known for his eclectic blending of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, and Hegelian dialectics. Often described as the "Elvis of cultural theory," Žižek achieved international fame for his ability to analyze complex political and social issues through the lens of popular culture, including film, jokes, and literature. His work is characterized by a "Hegelo-Lacanian" approach, aiming to expose the "ideological fantasies" that structure contemporary reality.

His debut in English, THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY (1989), provided a groundbreaking re-interpretation of ideology, moving away from the concept of "false consciousness" to argue that ideology operates at an unconscious level to structure reality itself, embedded in habits, fantasies, and forms of enjoyment. Žižek expanded on these ideas in FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO (1991), where he explored how subjects can be consciously aware of the falsity of a political position yet still act upon it through enjoyment. He frequently employed Lacanian concepts of the "Real," "Symbolic," and "Imaginary" to dissect contemporary political dynamics, particularly the eruption of militant nationalism and racism following the collapse of socialism.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Žižek developed a "critique of ideology" that focused on how the "Big Other" (abstract societal norms or authority) functions in modern life. His works from this period, including TARRYING WITH THE NEGATIVE (1993) and THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT (1994), deepened his examination of Hegel and psychoanalytic theory. In THE TICKLISH SUBJECT (1999), he offered a significant critique of postmodernism and liberal political theory, asserting that the Lacanian "split subject" is the necessary basis for radical politics. He also championed the use of popular culture to explain complex theory, with books such as LOOKING AWRY (1991) and ENJOY YOUR SYMPTOM! (1992).

Žižek’s later work has become increasingly focused on direct political interventions, analyzing topics like the September 11 attacks, the war on terror, and global capitalism, notably in WELCOME TO THE DESERT OF THE REAL (2002) and VIOLENCE: SIX SIDEWAYS REFLECTIONS (2008). His reputation for being an "intellectual provocateur" was solidified in works like IN DEFENSE OF LOST CAUSES (2008) and FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE (2009), where he criticized neoliberalism and challenged the "post-political" idea that social change is no longer possible. He later produced a massive theoretical work, LESS THAN NOTHING (2012), a major defense of Hegel and dialectical materialism.

More recently, Žižek has addressed contemporary crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic in PANDEMIC!: COVID-19 SHAKES THE WORLD (2020) and digital capitalism in LIKE A THIEF IN BROAD DAYLIGHT (2018). He continues to lecture widely and maintain an active public presence, examining everything from geopolitics to the ethical implications of technological advancements in works such as FREEDOM: A DISEASE WITHOUT CURE (2023).

What makes Žižek especially influential is that he is not only concerned with abstract problems but with cinema, capitalism, nationalism, digital culture, and the crises of liberal democracy. That combination of deep theoretical reference and immediate cultural commentary has made him one of the most discussed intellectuals of the past few decades, admired for his originality and criticized for his excesses in almost equal measure.


In addition to 100+ individual papers, the following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:

* A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name (Polity, 2020) – ePUB
* Absolute Recoil (Verso, 2014) – ePUB
* Against Progress: Essays 001 (Bloomsbury, 2025) – ePUB / PDF
* Against the Double Blackmail (Penguin, 2016) – ePUB / PDF
* Antigone (Bloomsbury, 2016) – ePUB / PDF
* The Abyss of Freedom / Ages of the World (Michigan, 1997) – PDF
* The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime (Washington, 2000) – PDF
* Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist (Bloomsbury, 2024) – ePUB / PDF
* Comradely Greetings: Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj (Verso, 2014) – ePUB
* Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (Verso, 2000) – PDF^
* Conversations with Žižek [with Glyn Daly] (Polity, 2004) – ePUB / PDF
* The Courage of Hopelessness (Melville House, 2017) – ePUB / PDF
* Demanding the Impossible [ed. Park] (Polity, 2013) – ePUB / PDF
* Democracy in What State? (Columbia, 2010) – PDF
* Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (Verso, 2002) – ePUB / PDF
* Disparities (Bloomsbury, 2016) – ePUB / PDF
* Enjoy Your Symptom, 2e (Routledge, 2008) – ePUB
* Event: A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept (Melville House, 2014) – ePUB
* First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (Verso, 2009) – ePUB / PDF
* For They Know Not What They Do [3e] (Verso, 2023) – ePUB
* The Fragile Absolute (Verso, 2008) – PDF
* Freedom: A Disease Without Cure (Bloomsbury, 2023) – ePUB
* The Fright of Real Tears (BFI, 2001) – PDF
* From Myth to Symptom (Kolektivi Materializmi Dialektik, 2013) – PDF
* God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Seven Stories, 2012) – ePUB / PDF
* Heaven in Disorder (OR, 2021) – ePUB
* Hegel in a Wired Brain (Bloomsbury, 2020) – ePUB
* How to Read Lacan (Granta, 2006) – ePUB
* In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso, 2008) – ePUB
* Incontinence of the Void (MIT, 2017) – ePUB / PDF
* The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters (Verso, 2007) – ePUB
* Interrogating the Real (Bloomsbury, 2013) – ePUB / PDF
* Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle (Verso, 2014) – PDF
* Less Than Nothing (Verso, 2012) – ePUB / PDF
* Liberal Fascisms: Essays 003 (Bloomsbury, 2026) – PDF
* Like A Thief In Broad Daylight (Allen Lane, 2018) – ePUB / PDF
* Living in the End Times (Verso, 2011) – ePUB
* Looking Awry (MIT, 1991) – PDF
* Mad World: War, Movies, Sex (OR Books, 2023) – ePUB
* The Metastases of Enjoyment (Verso, 2005) – ePUB / PDF
* The Monstrosity of Christ [ed. Davis] (MIT, 2009) – ePUB / PDF
* The Most Sublime Hysteric (Polity, 2014) – ePUB / PDF
* Mythology, Madness, and Laughter (Bloomsbury, 2009) – ePUB / PDF
* The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Chicago, 2013) – ePUB / PDF
* On Belief (Routledge, 2001) – PDF
* Opera's Second Death [with Mladen Dolar] (Routledge, 2002) – ePUB
* Organs without Bodies (Routledge, 2012) – ePUB / PDF
* Pandemic 2: Chronicles of Time Lost (OR Books, 2020) – ePUB / PDF
* Pandemic: COVID-19 Shakes the World (OR, 2020) – ePUB / PDF
* The Parallax View (MIT, 2006) – ePUB / PDF
* Philosophy in the Present [with Alain Badiou] (Polity, 2009) – PDF
* The Plague of Fantasies (Verso, 1997) – PDF
* The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (MIT, 2003) – ePUB / PDF
* Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2025) – ePUB / PDF
* Reading Hegel (Polity, 2022) – ePUB
* Reading Marx (Polity, 2018) – ePUB
* Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors (Melville House, 2016) – ePUB
* The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto (Polity, 2019) – ePUB / PDF
* Sex and the Failed Absolute (Bloomsbury, 2019) – ePUB / PDF
* The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 2008) – ePUB / PDF
* Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide to the Non-Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2022) – ePUB
* Tarrying with the Negative (Duke, 1993) – ePUB / PDF
* The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Verso, 2008) – ePUB
* Too Late to Awaken (Allen Lane, 2023) – ePUB
* Trouble in Paradise (Melville House, 2015) – ePUB
* The Universal Exception [ed. Butler & Stephens] (Bloomsbury, 2014) – PDF
* Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Profile, 2009) – ePUB
* The Wagnerian Sublime: Lacanian Readings of Classic Operas (August Verlag, 2016) – PDF
* Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Verso, 2012) – ePUB
* What Does Europe Want [with Srećko Horvat] (Columbia, 2015) – ePUB / PDF
* The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (Verso, 2012) – ePUB / PDF
* Zero Point: Essays no. 002 (Bloomsbury, 2025) – ePUB
* Zizek's Jokes [ed. Mortensen] (MIT, 2014) – ePUB / PDF

== EDITOR ==

* An American Utopia (Verso, 2016) – ePUB
* Cogito and the Unconscious (Duke, 1998) – PDF
* Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, 2e (Verso, 2010) – ePUB
* Gaze and Voice As Love Objects (Duke, 1996) – PDF
* Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2024) – PDF
* Hegel and the Infinite (Columbia, 2011) – ePUB / PDF
* The Idea of Communism (Verso, 2010) – PDF
* The Idea of Communism 2 (Verso, 2013) – PDF
* The Idea of Communism 3 (Verso, 2016) – ePUB
* Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, 4 vols. (Routledge, 2003) – PDF
* Lacan: The Silent Partners (Verso, 2006) – PDF
* Lenin 2017 (Verso, 2017) – ePUB
* Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth (Duke, 2007) – PDF
* Mao: On Practice and Contradiction (Verso, 2017) – ePUB / PDF
* Mapping Ideology (Verso, 2012) – ePUB
* Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World (Bloomsbury, 2021) – ePUB
* Paul's New Moment (Brazos, 2010) – PDF
* Perversion and the Social Relation (Duke, 2003) – ePUB / PDF
* Political Jouissance (Bloomsbury, 2024) – ePUB
* The Privatization of Hope (Duke, 2013) – PDF
* Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings from Lenin to 1917 (Verso, 2011) – ePUB
* Robespierre: Virtue and Terror (Verso, 2017) – ePUB
* States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios (Routledge, 2016) – ePUB / PDF
* Subject Lessons (Northwestern, 2020) – PDF
* Theology and the Political (Duke, 2005) – PDF
* Trotsky: Terrorism and Communism (Verso, 2017) – ePUB
* What Does a Jew Want [Udi Aloni] (Columbia, 2011) – ePUB / PDF

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