Event by Slavoj Žižek - ISBN: 9781846146268
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Zizek asks: What is an event? Is anything truly new?

Event

Philosophy in Transit

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    26 March 2014

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Summary

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of ‘event’, in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy.

What is really happening when something happens? Here, Slavoj Zizek, one of the world’s greatest living philosophers, takes us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, and addresses fundamental questions such as- are all things connected? How much are we agents of our own fates? And in a world that’s constantly cha…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781846146268
ISBN-10:1846146267
Author:Slavoj Žižek
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:26 March 2014
Weight:170g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 13mm
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Critics Review

His prose is irrepressible, sometimes bonkers but never boring

His prose is irrepressible, sometimes bonkers but never boring * New Statesman *

About The Author

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Communist political activist. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art. His main work is Less Than Nothing, a study on the actuality of Hegelian dialectics.

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