The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavo

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The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about.Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism - Zizek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is, or should be, this- do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as a fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits?

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Described by Adam Kirsch in the New Republic as 'the most dangerous philosopher in the West', the Slovenian Hegelian returns with this argument for looking the negativity of the political situation in the eye as an essential precursor to positive change.

Author Biography

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, Against the Double Blackmail.

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iek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian *iek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *

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The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.

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zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative

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Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative-- Guardian Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation-- New Yorker

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The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.

Details ISBN0141986093 Pages 336 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 0141986093 ISBN-13 9780141986098 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-05-03 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Subtitle Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 303.4 Media Book Short Title The Courage of Hopelessness Language English UK Release Date 2018-05-03 Narrator Sarah Ridgeway Illustrator Moses Nester Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Author Slavoj iek Alternative 9780241305584 NZ Release Date 2018-05-13 AU Release Date 2018-05-13 Audience General We've got this

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