Demanding the Impossible (eBook)

Slavoj Zizek (Autor)

Yong-june Park (Herausgeber)

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2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780745679839 (ISBN)

Infos

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 offer an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time.

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.

Inhalt

Title page 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
1 Politics and Responsibility 11
2 Obsession for Harmony/Compulsion to Identify 14
3 Politicization of Ethics 19
4 Means Without End: Political Phronesis 22
5 “May You Live In Interesting Times” 26
6 Communism: The Ethico-Political Fiasco 30
7 Who Is Afraid of a Failed Revolution? 34
8 Another World Is Possible 37
9 For They Know Not What They Do 41
10 Parallax View on Postmodern Globalization 44
11 The Public Use of Scandal 48
12 The Screen of Politeness/Empty Gestures and Performatives 52
13 Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism 58
14 The Subversive Use of Theory 62
15 Embodying a Proletarian Position 66
16 New Forms of Apartheid 72
17 Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space 76
18 Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes 81
19 Café Revolution 84
20 To Begin From the Beginning 87
21 The Fear of Real Love 91
22 Dialectic of Liberal Superiority 96
23 The Day After 101
24 The Universality of Political Miracles 106
25 Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking 110
26 Politicization of Favelas 113
27 Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation 118
28 Violent Civil Disobedience 122
29 Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence 126
30 Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence 131
31 No Moralization But Egotism 135
32 Possibility of Concrete Universality 140
33 Common Struggle for Freedom 144
34 The Impossible Happens 149

Rezensionen

"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 breadth and depth of Zizek's ideas, made all the better to follow his arguments via an imaginative format of short thematic interviews."
--The Substantive

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Gesellschaftstheorie • Philosophy, revolution, communism, political miracles,violence, love, common good, freedom • Political Philosophy & Theory • Political Science • Politikwissenschaft • Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780745679839 / 9780745679839