The Year of Dreaming Dangerously - Softcover

Slavoj Zizek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781680426 ISBN 13: 9781781680421

Publisher: Verso Books, 2012

Synopsis

Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world s racist populists in places as far apart as hungary and arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer anders Breivik. The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted sometimes even perverted fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present.

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Review:

Praise for Living in the End Times: Fierce brilliance - scintillating. --Steven Poole, Guardian

Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard. --Observer

Never ceases to dazzle. --Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

SLAVOJ ZIZEK is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include Less Than Nothing; Living in the End Times; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; In Defense of Lost Causes; six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781680426
• ISBN 13: 9781781680421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144