Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming Europe In this short yet stirring book, Slavoj Zizek—called “the Elvis of cultural history” by The New York Times—argues that accepting all comers or blocking all entry are both untenable solutions . . . But there is a third option. Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response, from our protected Western European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad, states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem, rather than tackling it. The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but, if we are to do so, we have to start raising unpleasant and difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change, one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being. The only way, in other words, to get to the heart of one of the greatest issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such solidarity is a utopia. But, warns Zizek, if we don't engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost.
Against the Double Blackmail
Against the Double Blackmail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Double Blackmail write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2017. Against the Double Blackmail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, 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. 'Zizek identifies the refugee crisis as one of the major global challenges of our time ...he argues for a politics of solidarity'
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2016-10-18. Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming Europe In this short yet stirring book, Slavoj Zizek—called “the Elvis of cultural history” by The New York Times—argues that accepting all comers or blocking all entry are both untenable solutions . . . But there is a third option. Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response, from our protected Western European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad, states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem, rather than tackling it. The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but, if we are to do so, we have to start raising unpleasant and difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change, one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being. The only way, in other words, to get to the heart of one of the greatest issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such solidarity is a utopia. But, warns Zizek, if we don't engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost.
The Courage of Hopelessness
The Courage of Hopelessness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courage of Hopelessness write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2018-02-06. The Courage of Hopelessness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles—and asks whether radical change is possible 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 Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have 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—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—Zizek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is,or should be, this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits? “Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation” —The New Yorker
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First As Tragedy, Then As Farce write by Slavoj Žižek. This book was released on 2009-10-05. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
