A spectre is haunting Western academia, the spectre of the Cartesian subject. Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heidiggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists ...all are united in their hostility to it. The Ticklish Subject seeks to undermine the common presuppositions of all these crititiqes by posing a provocative question: What if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core that provides the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics.

Author Biography

Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia. His other books for Verso include The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For?, The Sublime Object of Desire, The Plague of Fantasies, The Indivisible Remainder, For They Know Not What They Do, and Metatases of Enjoyment. He is the editor of Mapping Ideology and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock.