The Courage of Hopelessness
Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2018
Summary
The maverick philosopher returns to explore today’s ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless – that the light at the end of the tunn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141986098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141986093 |
| Author: | Slavoj Žižek |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian *Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *
About The Author
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, Against the Double Blackmail.
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