Demanding the Impossible - Softcover

Žižek, Slavoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745672299 ISBN 13: 9780745672298

Publisher: Polity, 2013

Synopsis

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Žižek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Žižek at his 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.

About this title

Review:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0745672299
• ISBN 13: 9780745672298
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152