Demanding the Impossible

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Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. ?i?ek dazzles readers with his analyses of Hollywood films, Venezuelan police reports, Swedish crime fiction and much else. Wherever the conversation turns, his energetic mind illuminates unexpected horizons. While analyzing our present.;Cover; Half Title; TitlePage; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Politics and Responsibility; 2 Obsession for Harmony / Compulsion to Identify; 3 Politicization of Ethics; 4 Means Without End: Political Phronesis; 5 "May You Live In Interesting Times"; 6 Communism: The Ethico- Political Fiasco; 7 Who Is Afraid of a Failed Revolution?; 8 Another World Is Possible; 9 For They Know Not What They Do; 10 Parallax View on Postmodern Globalization; 11 The Public Use of Scandal; 12 The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and Performatives; 13 Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism.