About the book: 2003 / In the book "The fragile absolute" Slavoj Zizek continues, begun in his previous studies, the analysis of the conditions of existence of modern person. These conditions are predetermined, in particular, by the disappearance of countries of real socialism and capitalist globalization. As Žižek shows, this seemingly political-economic problem is, in fact, also a problem of human subjectification. That is why a psychoanalytic, and not just a political economic, approach turns out to be possible and even inevitable here. Therefore, it is not surprising that Zizek borrows the main methodological tools not only from Karl Marx, but also from Jacques Lacan. Therefore, the analysis of totalitarianism turns out to be immutable. An absolutely fragile man in search of his foundations... Slavoj Zizek is one of the greatest thinkers of our day. Born in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1949. President of the Ljubljana Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Social Research. Author of numerous books - “Everything you wanted to know about Lacan, but were afraid to ask Hitchcock” (1988), “Coexistence with Negativity” (1993), “Love Your Symptom” (1992), “Yawning Freedom” and others. In 1999, the publishing house "Art Journal" published a translation of his main work, "The Sublime Object of Ideology"".