Liberalist fantasies: Žižek and the impossibility of the open society

Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 815-836

  De Cock, Christian ^a   Bhm, Steffen ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Ideology; Liberalism; Open society; Political philosophy; i ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548948499     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407082264     Document Type: Article

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