The courage of hopelessness : chronicles of a year of acting dangerously
Žižek, Slavoj2017
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In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues the author, it is only when we've admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about. Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism - Žižek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change.
Main title:
The courage of hopelessness : chronicles of a year of acting dangerously / Slavoj Žižek.
Author:
Žižek, Slavoj, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2017.
Collation:
160 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780241305577 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.4
Language:
English
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BRN:
858696
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