In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorises the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political - and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. "The Parallax View" is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between...