New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2020. Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the Incel movement.