Description
We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour?
Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Zizek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty, Zizek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the 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 9781802063677
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Penguin
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 147g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm
