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Demanding the Impossible


Demanding the Impossible


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von: Slavoj Žižek, Yong-june Park

15,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 06.02.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9780745679853
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 160

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Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book.  Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses of Hollywood films, Venezuelan police reports, Swedish crime fiction and much else. Wherever the conversation turns, his energetic mind illuminates unexpected horizons. <p>While analyzing our present predicaments, Zizek also explores possibilities for change. What sort of society is worth striving for? Why is it difficult to imagine alternative social and political arrangements? What are the bases for hope? A key obligation in our troubled times, argues Zizek, is to dare to ask fundamental questions: we must reflect and theorize anew, and always be prepared to rethink and redefine the limits of the possible.</p> <p>These original and compelling conversations offer an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time.</p>
Acknowledgements<br /> 1) Politics and Responsibility<br /> 2) Obsession for Harmony / Compulsion to Identify<br /> 3) Politicization of Ethics<br /> 4) Means Without End: Political Phronesis<br /> 5) “May you live in interesting times”<br /> 6) Communism The Ethico-political Fiasco<br /> 7) Who is Afraid of a Failed Revolution?<br /> 8) Another World is Possible<br /> 9) For They Know Not What They Do<br /> 10) Parallax View on Post-modern Globalization<br /> 11) The Public Use of the Scandal<br /> 12) The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and Performatives<br /> 13) Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism<br /> 14) The Subversive Use of Theory<br /> 15) Becoming Proletarian Position<br /> 16) New Forms of Apartheid<br /> 17) Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space<br /> 18) Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes<br /> 19) Café Revolution<br /> 20) To Begin from the Beginning<br /> 21) The Fear of Real Love<br /> 22) Dialectic of Liberal Superiority<br /> 23) The Day After<br /> 24) The Universality of Political Miracles<br /> 25) Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking<br /> 26) Politicization of Favelas<br /> 27) Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation<br /> 28) Violent Civil Disobedience<br /> 29) Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence<br /> 30) Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence<br /> 31) No Moralization But Egotism<br /> 32) Possibility of Concrete Universality<br /> 33) Common Struggle for Freedom<br /> 34) The Impossible Happens
<p>"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in several decades."<br />—<b>Terry Eagleton</b></p> <p>"Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."<br />—<i><b>The Observer</b></i></p> <p>"... an excellent introduction to both the breadth and depth of Zizek's ideas, made all the better to follow his arguments via an imaginative format of short thematic interviews."<br />—<i><b>The Substantive</b></i></p>
Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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