This book brings together two of the most influential thinkers in critical theory. By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is 'to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Zizek) and to change it.About the Author: Fabio Vighi is Lecturer in Italian Studies at Cardiff University, author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001) and Traumatic Encounters (2006), and co-editor of Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Zizek and Consequences (2007).Heiko Feldner is Lecturer in Modern German History at Cardiff University, author of Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung (1999) and co-editor of Writing History: Theory and Practice (2003) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Zizek and Consequences (2007).