Against the Double Blackmail

Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

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Slavoj Z?iz?ek

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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? Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response, 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. He shows how the refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself- but, if we are to do so, we must 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 sees the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being. Maybe such global 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.

Author Biography:

Slavoj Zizek 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.

Release date NZ

February 23rd, 2017

Author

Slavoj Z?iz?ek

Pages

128

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Dimensions

129x198x7

ISBN-13

9780141984124

Product ID

26079601

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