Description
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament
We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour?
Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Zizek deliver his most forceful, hopeful account of our discontents yet. Surveying the interlocking crises we currently face - global warming, war, famine, disease - he points us towards the radical, emancipatory politics that we need in order to halt our drift towards disaster.
Pithy, urgent and witty, Zizek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows why, in order to change our future, we must reimagine our past.
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Reviews
The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic *
Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *
Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *
Book Information
ISBN 9780241651759
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Allen Lane
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 303g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 144mm * 22mm
