Žižek / Horvat What Does Europe Want?

The Union and Its Discontents
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53841-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Two critical heavyweights call on Europe to radically resist global injustice and become a more conscientious player in world politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Žižek, Slavoj

Horvat, Srecko

Horvat, Sre?ko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Destruction of Greece as a Model for All of Europe: Is this the Future that Europe Deserves?, by Alexis Tsipras
Preface: What Does the U.S. Want, or What to Do After Occupy?, by Srecko Horvat
1. Breaking Our Eggs without the Omelette, from Cyprus to Greece, by Slavoj Žižek
2. Danke Deutschland!, by Srecko Horvat
3. When the Blind Are Leading the Blind, Democracy Is the Victim, by Slavoj Žižek
4. Why the EU Needs Croatia More than Croatia Needs the EU, by Srecko Horvat
5. What Does Europe Want?, by Slavoj Žižek
6. Are the Nazis Living on the Moon?, by Srecko Horvat
7. The Return of the Christian-conservative Revolution, by Slavoj Žižek
8. In the Land of Blood and Money: Angelina Jolie and the Balkans, by Srecko Horvat
9. The Turkish March, by Slavoj Žižek
10. War and Peace in Europe: 'Bei den Sorglosen', by Srecko Horvat
11. Save Us from the Saviours: Europe and the Greeks, by Slavoj Žižek
12. 'I'm Not Racist, but. the Blacks are Coming!', by Srecko Horvat
13. Shoplifters of the World Unite, by Slavoj Žižek
14. Do Markets Have Feelings?, by Srecko Horvat
15. The Courage to Cancel the Debt, by Slavoj Žižek
16. The Easiest Way to the Gulag Is to Joke About the Gulag, by Srecko Horvat
17. We Need a Margaret Thatcher of the Left, by Slavoj Žižek
18. Europe Will Be Either Democratic and Social or It Will No Longer Exist (interview by Srecko Horvat), by Alexis Tsipras
19. The Role of the European Left (debate), by Slavoj Žižek and Alexis Tsipras
Afterword: Europe Is Dead, Long Live Europe!, by Srecko Horvat
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Slavoj ¿i¿ek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, University of Ljubljana, and at the European Graduate School. Among his most recent books are Demanding the Impossible, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, and The Sublime Object of Ideology. He is a coeditor of Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic and a contributor to Democracy in What State?, What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters, and Reimagining the Sacred: Debating God with Richard Kearney. Srecko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher and the author of nine books. He is also a highly respected political theorist and activist, and a columnist for The Guardian. His latest book is After the End of History: From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement.