Zizek demands we take a long hard look at the painful reality of education in contemporary
capitalist society and to actively seek out its 'trouble in paradise': Why is it education is
supposedly failing to meet the demands of our society? Why is it there are record levels of
stress for teachers? Why is it there is a record level of complaints from our university
students? How is it now possible to compare a higher education course with a vacuum cleaner
toaster or television? This book illuminates aspects of Zizek's ideas which sheds light into
these modern challenges and tensions in education and considers alternative ways forward.
Though Zizek frustrates as much as he inspires with his own recipe of Lacan Hegel and Marx
this book aims to give an entry route into Zizekian critique of education a topic area he very
rarely directly talks about.
