'One of our best-known living philosophers' Guardian

How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Žižek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future.

'Žižek identifies the refugee crisis as one of the major global challenges of our time ... he argues for a politics of solidarity' The Times Literary Supplement

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The celebrated philosopher returns with a provoking analysis of Europe's crisis. Exposing its real nature, he asks- what is to be done?

Product details

ISBN
9780141984124
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
103 gr
Height
199 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
8 mm
Age
01, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
128

Biographical note

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.