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Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors

Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors 139 Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0022 Zizek, Slavoj. Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors (United Kingdom: Allen Lane, 2016. 9.99 GBP 117 pp. ISBN 978-0-241-27884-0) "Large migrations are our future" "So the question is: What does a creepy neighbor want?" (Slavoj Zizek) Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's best known philosophers and public intellectuals. He is exceptionally prolific, not always because he is popularly accessible, but because he has the ability to raise profound issues yet blend the questions these issues provoke into a charming mix of "high" and "low" culture, deadly seriousness with a "wink, wink" humor ­ even hilarity. Friedrich Nietzsche's axiom, "It's not true unless it makes you laugh at least once," often provides him with his reigning method of political philosophy. The subject of Slavoj Zizek's maiden lecture in Romania at the University of Bucharest's Department of History in May, 1995, "On Totalitarian Laughter," says it all. Against the Double Blackmail is Zizek's venture into recent developments currently tearing the European Union apart ­ immigration, refugees, terrorism, a beleaguered liberal-Left consensus and the rise of anti-immigrant populist nationalists. It is a small book but no less insightful for that. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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139 Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0022 Zizek, Slavoj. Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors (United Kingdom: Allen Lane, 2016. 9.99 GBP 117 pp. ISBN 978-0-241-27884-0) "Large migrations are our future" "So the question is: What does a creepy neighbor want?" (Slavoj Zizek) Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's best known philosophers and public intellectuals. He is exceptionally prolific, not always because he is popularly accessible, but because he has the ability to raise profound issues yet blend the questions these issues provoke into a charming mix of "high" and "low" culture, deadly seriousness with a "wink, wink" humor ­ even hilarity. Friedrich Nietzsche's axiom, "It's not true unless it makes you laugh at least once," often provides him with his reigning method of political philosophy. The subject of Slavoj Zizek's maiden lecture in Romania at the University of Bucharest's Department of History in May, 1995, "On Totalitarian Laughter," says it all. Against the Double Blackmail is Zizek's venture into recent developments currently tearing the European Union apart ­ immigration, refugees, terrorism, a beleaguered liberal-Left consensus and the rise of anti-immigrant populist nationalists. It is a small book but no less insightful for that.

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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2016

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