?i?ek and Freedom

This book is an exploration of ?i?ek's theory of freedom. By examining key passages in ?i?ek's work the aim is to provide a functional, serviceable philosophy of power and ideology and show how this philosophy of power relates to freedom. Although some, like Noam Chomsky, have criticized ?i?ek's work as having no guiding principles, it is suggested that this misses the fact that ?i?ek's philosophy utilizes a dialectical methodology that often appears contradictory. Though a highly astute reader with a background in the philosophical texts he frequently cites (the German Idealists, Freud, and modern philosophers), it becomes clear that there is a uniquely Zizekian philosophy that mobilizes a radical hermeneutics of freedom.