Too Late to Awaken by Slavoj Žižek - ISBN: 9781802063677
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Disaster is here, says Žižek. To avert it, act now.

Too Late to Awaken

What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    11 February 2025

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Summary

The ‘most dangerous philosopher in the West’ returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament.

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 c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781802063677
ISBN-10:1802063676
Author:Slavoj Žižek
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:11 February 2025
Weight:152g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 12mm
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Critics Review

The most dangerous philosopher in the West – Adam Kirsch * New Republic *

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 *Never ceases to dazzle – Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph *Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the ‘80s: the thinker of choice for Europe’s young intellectual vanguard * Observer *

About The Author

Slavoj Žižek

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.

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