We hear all the time that we are at some point in the end of the world. Around us, crises intersect and intensify, threatening our collective survival. Protesters and politicians are repeatedly calling for action, but we continue to drift toward disaster. We must do something. But what if the only way for us to avoid catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened – to accept that it is already five minutes past zero? Too Late to Wake sees Slavoj Žižek forging a new vital space for a politics of radical emancipation that could prevent us from heading towards self-destruction.
Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and psychoanalytic social theorist. He is a senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana; Professor at the Faculty of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, University of London; distinguished researcher at Kyung Hee University in Seoul; and visiting professor in the Department of German at New York University. His area of work includes Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialectico-materialist metaphysical interpretations of German idealism, and Marxist critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include “Sex and the Absolute Failure”, “Like a Thief in Broad Daylight”, “Reading Marx”, “The Incontinence of the Void”, “The Aftermath of the Revolution”, “The Sky in Disorder” , “Reading Hegel”. », “Surplus-pleasure”, “Žižek responds! », “Liberty: illness without cure” and “Christian atheism”.
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