The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
Slavoj Zizek (Author)
A Verso book
The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests.
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik.
The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present
Book Details
- Paperback
- October 2012
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ISBN 978-1-78168-042-1
- 5.2 × 7.8 in
/ 142 pages
- Territory Rights: USA and Dependencies and the Philippines.
Endorsements & Reviews
“A great provocateur and an immensely suggestive and even dashing writer ... Žižek writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that is spellbinding.” — Los Angeles Times
“The thinker of choice for Europe’s young intellectual vanguard.” — Sean O’Hagan, Observer
“Such passion, in a man whose work forms a bridge between the minutiae of popular culture and the big abstract problems of existence, is invigorating, entertaining and expanding inquiring minds around the world.” — Daily Telegraph
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