Demanding the impossible


Slavoj Źižek ; edited by Yong-june Park
Bok Engelsk 2017 Slavoj Žižek
Medvirkende
Park, Yong-june (redaktør)
Utgitt
Polity : Cambridge, England , 2017
Omfang
144 s.
Opplysninger
Engelsk tekst. - Cover; Half Title; TitlePage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Politics and Responsibility; 2 Obsession for Harmony / Compulsion to Identify; 3 Politicization of Ethics; 4 Means Without End: Political Phronesis; 5 "May You Live In Interesting Times"; 6 Communism: The Ethico- Political Fiasco; 7 Who Is Afraid of a Failed Revolution?; 8 Another World Is Possible; 9 For They Know Not What They Do; 10 Parallax View on Postmodern Globalization; 11 The Public Use of Scandal; 12 The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and Performatives; 13 Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism; 14 The Subversive Use of Theory15 Embodying a Proletarian Position; 16 New Forms of Apartheid; 17 Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space; 18 Rage Capital and Risk- Taking Revolutionary Changes; 19 Café Revolution; 20 To Begin From the Beginning; 21 The Fear of Real Love; 22 Dialectic of Liberal Superiority; 23 The Day After; 24 The Universality of Political Miracles; 25 Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking; 26 Politicization of Favelas; 27 Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation; 28 Violent Civil Disobedience; 29 Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence; 30 Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence31 No Moralization But Egotism; 32 Possibility of Concrete Universality; 33 Common Struggle for Freedom; 34 The Impossible Happens. - Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Žižek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Žižek 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. Źižek 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. While analyzing our present
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320 . - 327.1
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