Demanding the Impossible (eBook)

Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Acknowledgements

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 Post-modern Globalization

11) The Public Use of the Scandal

12) The Screen of Politeness / Empty Gestures and
Performatives

13) Deadlock of Totalitarian Communism

14) The Subversive Use of Theory

15) Becoming Proletarian Position

16) New Forms of Apartheid

17) Intrusion of the Excluded into the Socio-Political Space

18) Rage Capital and Risk-Taking Revolutionary Changes

19) Café Revolution

20) To Begin from the Beginning

21) The Fear of Real Love

22) Dialectic of Liberal Superiority

23) The Day After

24) The Universality of Political Miracles

25) Messianism, Multitude, and Wishful Thinking

26) Politicization of Favelas

27) Bolivarianism, the Populist Temptation

28) Violent Civil Disobedience

29) Legitimacy of Symbolic Violence

30) Gandhi, Aristide, and Divine Violence

31) No Moralization But Egotism

32) Possibility of Concrete Universality

33) Common Struggle for Freedom

34) The Impossible Happens

"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."
--Terry Eagleton

"Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."
--The Observer

"... 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."
--The Substantive