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Demanding the Impossible
Slavoj Zizek
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Description for Demanding the Impossible
Hardcover. * Slavoj Zizek is one of the world s most widely read and controversial philosophers and social critics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek 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. Zizek 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.
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek 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. Zizek 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 predicaments, Zizek also explores possibilities for ... Read more
These original and compelling conversations offer an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745672281
SKU
V9780745672281
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About Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Reviews for Demanding the Impossible
"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in several decades." —Terry Eagleton "Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard." —The Observer "... an excellent introduction to both the ... Read more