Too Late To Awaken Av Slavoj Zizek

<p><b>The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament<br><br></b><i>We hear all the time that it''s five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we''re already five minutes past zero hour?</i><br><br>Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? <i>Too Late to Awaken </i>sees Slavoj ¿i¿ek deliver his most forceful, hopeful account of our discontents yet. Surveying the interlocking crises we currently face - global warming, war, famine, disease - he points us towards the radical, emancipatory politics that we need in order to halt our drift towards disaster.<br><br>Pithy, urgent and witty, ¿i¿ek''s diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows why, in order to change our future, we must reimagine our past.</p>