{"id":1365,"date":"2011-02-01T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:31:12","slug":"the-sublime-object-of-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"The Sublime Object of Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"9781844673001-frontcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/system\/images\/551\/max_221\/9781844673001-frontcover.jpg\" \/>The Sublime Object of Ideology, London, Verso (2009).<br \/>\nby <strong>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exploring the ideologies fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s first book, published in 1989, is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/strong> is philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include\u00a0<em>Living in the End Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce<\/em>, <em>In Defense of Lost Causes<\/em>, four volumes of the Essential\u00a0\u017di\u017eek, and many more.\u00a0His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes\u2014all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdfs\/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology.pdf\">download pdf &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<br \/>\nExploring the ideologies fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s first book, published in 1989, is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}