Name: Demanding The Impossible
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Author: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN: 9780745672281

Type

Physical Book

Author

Slavoj Zizek

Publisher

Polity

Topic

Social Theory

Collection

Polity Press

Pages

160

Weight

280

ISBN

0745672280

ISBN13

9780745672281

Synopsis "Demanding The Impossible"

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 Change. What Sort Of Society Is Worth Striving For? Why Is It Difficult To Imagine Alternative Social And Political Arrangements? What Are The Bases For Hope? A Key Obligation In Our Troubled Times, Argues Zizek, Is To Dare To Ask Fundamental Questions: We Must Reflect And Theorize Anew, And Always Be Prepared To Rethink And Redefine The Limits Of The Possible. These Original And Compelling Conversations, Many Appearing Here For The First Time In English, Offer An Engaging And Accessible Introduction To One Of The Most Important Thinkers Of Our Time

Slavoj Zizek

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Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, March 21, 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and cultural critic. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He teaches continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, film criticism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and theology.

In 1989, Žižek published his first text in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which he moved away from traditional Marxist theory to develop a materialist conception of ideology that heavily relied on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian idealism.

In 2012, Foreign Policy included Žižek in its list of the top 100 global thinkers, calling him a "philosophical celebrity." Žižek's work was featured in a 2005 documentary titled Zizek!. An academic journal, the International Journal of Žižek Studies, was founded to understand his work.

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