The Courage of Hopelessness: A Year of Acting Dangerously

In THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS, maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.

In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train - that fundamental change can be brought about.

• The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek)
• Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
• The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
• Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
• First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
• Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
• Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
• How to Read Lacan (How to Read)
• Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Big Ideas/Small Books)
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?