Title: Pandemic, Covid 19 shakes the world
Original: Pandemic, Covid 19 shakes the world
Category: Philosophy
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Polity
Year: 2020
Pgs: 137
Weight: 0.160 kg
ISBN: 978-1-509-54610-7
This book is in English
About the book
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences?
We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Zizek, a new form of communism – the outlines of which can already be seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism – may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism.