In Defense of Lost Causes

In this combative major work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Zizek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger''s seduction by fascism and Foucault''s flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the ''right steps in the wrong direction''. On the revolutionary terror of Robespierre, Mao and the Bolsheviks, Zizek argues that ...