The Courage of Hopelessness

Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

Slavoj Žižek

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English

Penguin
14 May 2018

Philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Religion & politics

The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, 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 admit 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 - 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 is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative' - Guardian

'Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' - New Yorker

By: Slavoj Žižek
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780141986098
ISBN 10: 0141986093
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 14 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, Against the Double Blackmail.

Reviews for The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian * Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *