For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Phronesis S.) - Softcover

.".. it will become one of the 'classics' of postmarxism."--Lillian Zac, "Marxism Today""Britons, take our advice, do not read this book; it may seriously infect your mind. And, above allo, keep it out of reach of your wives, your children and your servants."--"Laibach""Slavoj i ek, the Giant of Llubljana ... provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus."--"Voice Literary Supplement"" i ek's recent spate of books ... has been widely and correctly regarded as an enormous contribution to contemporary thought ... He inflicts the most obscure theory upon us, in such a way that we are forced to enjoy it."--Charles Shepardson, "The Minnesota Review"

An exposition of the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.