What is the connection between futuristic technology, which has some philosophers suggesting that we are heading to a post-human age, fundamentalism, and liberalism? Critical theorist Slavoj Žižek connects the dots. He explores the revelations and pitfalls of the dialectical method, in a journey that stops off at the popular novel The Lost Symbol, Jungian psychoanalysis, Afghanistan's secular past, and Iraq's fundamentalist present.

Marx wrote in The German Ideology that the ruling ideas of any epoch are the ideas of the ruling class. Is such a notion obsolete today? The provocative Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that ideology, understood in the Marxist sense, is alive and well. He explores the concept through the lens of the Hollywood film "I Am Legend," the legacies of 1968, and the phenomenon of Sarah Palin.