The Courage of Hopelessness. Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, 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 ?i?ek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact t