Too Late to Awaken
- Author Slavoj Zizek
- Narrator Neil Gardner
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 5 hours and 25 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Social and political philosophy, Society and Social Sciences.
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We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour?
Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty, Žižek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the past.
©2023 Slavoj Žižek (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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The most dangerous philosopher in the West
New Republic -
Žižek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative
Guardian
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Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation
New Yorker -
Never ceases to dazzle
Daily Telegraph -
Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the ’80s: the thinker of choice for Europe’s young intellectual vanguard
Observer
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