{"product_id":"demanding-the-impossible-9780745672281","title":"Demanding the Impossible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Slavoj Zizek is one of the world   s most widely read and controversial philosophers and social critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in several decades.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... an excellent introduction to both the breadth and depth of Zizek's ideas, made all the better to follow his arguments via an imaginative format of short thematic interviews.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Substantive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1) Politics and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e 2) Obsession for Harmony \/ Compulsion to Identify\u003cbr\u003e 3) Politicization of Ethics\u003cbr\u003e 4) Means Without End: Political Phronesis\u003cbr\u003e 5) “May you live in interesting times”\u003cbr\u003e 6) Communism The Ethico-political Fiasco\u003cbr\u003e 7) Who is Afraid of a Failed Revolution?\u003cbr\u003e 8) Another World is Possible\u003cbr\u003e 9) For They Know Not What They Do\u003cbr\u003e 10) Parallax View on Post-modern Globalization\u003cbr\u003e 11) The Public Use of the Scandal\u003cbr\u003e 12) The Screen of Politeness \/ Empty Gestures and Performatives\u003cbr\u003e 13) Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism\u003cbr\u003e 14) The Subversive Use of Theory\u003cbr\u003e 15) Becoming Proletarian Position\u003cbr\u003e 16) New Forms of Apartheid\u003cbr\u003e 17) Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space\u003cbr\u003e 18) Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes\u003cbr\u003e 19) Café Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 20) To Begin from the Beginning\u003cbr\u003e 21) The Fear of Real Love\u003cbr\u003e 22) Dialectic of Liberal Superiority\u003cbr\u003e 23) The Day After\u003cbr\u003e 24) The Universality of Political Miracles\u003cbr\u003e 25) Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking\u003cbr\u003e 26) Politicization of Favelas\u003cbr\u003e 27) Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation\u003cbr\u003e 28) Violent Civil Disobedience\u003cbr\u003e 29) Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence\u003cbr\u003e 30) Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence\u003cbr\u003e 31) No Moralization But Egotism\u003cbr\u003e 32) Possibility of Concrete Universality\u003cbr\u003e 33) Common Struggle for Freedom\u003cbr\u003e 34) The Impossible Happens","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404422848855,"sku":"9780745672281","price":42.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745672281.jpg?v=1730486416","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/demanding-the-impossible-9780745672281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}