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  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781846146268
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00
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Event

Philosophy in Transit




Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy

What is really happening when something happens? Here, Slavoj Zizek, one of the world's greatest living philosophers, takes us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, and addresses fundamental questions such as: are all things connected? How much are we agents of our own fates? And in a world that's constantly changing, is anything new really happening? Drawing on references from Plato to arthouse cinema, the Big Bang to Buddhism, Event is a journey into philosophy at its most exciting.

  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781846146268
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

Slavoj Zizek

Philosopher and cultural critic SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is internationally recognized for his works on psychoanalysis, Hegel, cinema, political theory, and current events. He teaches at the European Graduate School and has been a visiting professor at Université de Paris VIII, Columbia, and Princeton, among other institutions. He is founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is the author of many books on topics ranging from Christianity to the films of David Lynch. His books include God in Pain: Inversions of the Apocalypse, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism, and Too Late To Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?, all three published by Seven Stories Press

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Praise for Event

His prose is irrepressible, sometimes bonkers but never boring

New Statesman