As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent." The contemporary relevance of Mao's observation depends on whether today's catastrophes can be a catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in heaven itself. Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Zizek's new book treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and Chile, France and Kurdistan, and beyond. Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Zizek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation, and-above all-an urgent, "wartime" communism.

Reviews likely: Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Jacobin, CounterPunch Interviews likely: The Joe Rogan Experience, Under the Skin with Russell Brand, The Owen Jones Show, Jacobin, Interview, Bad Faith, Chapo Trap House, Red Scare, Going Underground, Give Them an Argument Excerpts likely: Jacobin, The Point, The Baffler, American Affairs, RT Book launch in New York

About the Author
.Slavoj Zizek is one of the most prolific and well-known philosophers and cultural theorists in the world today. His inventive, provocative body of work mixes Hegelian metaphysics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist dialectic in order to challenge conventional wisdom and accepted verities on both the Left and the Right.

Reviews

"Offers an overall view of [Zizek's] thinking and politics... There's much to agree with, enjoy, and ponder" - Splice

General praise for Slavoj:

"One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left." -Times Literary Supplement

"The thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard." -Observer

"The most dangerous philosopher in the West." -Adam Kirsch, The New Republic

"Never ceases to dazzle." -Daily Telegraph

"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek." -New York Review of Books

Book Information
ISBN 9781682192818
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint OR Books
Publisher OR Books