Un filósofo esloveno, antiguo disidente anticomunista convertido al comunismo, Slavoj Zizek, y un antiguo radical de izquierdas que ahora es un fiero partidario del ala derecha de los sionistas, David Horowitz, se vieron las caras en el segundo programa del proyecto ‘El mundo del mañana’ con Julian Assange. El filósofo político ‘más peligroso’ de Occidente y [...]

The Muslim scholar and philosopher discuss the power of popular dissent and the limits of peaceful protest. The revolutionary chants on the streets of Egypt have resonated around the world, but with a popular uprising without a clear direction and an unpopular leader refusing to concede, Egypt’s future hangs in the balance. On Thursday’s Riz Khan we [...]

La izquierda, plantea Žižek, vive una de las peores crisis de su historia. Una de las causas es la incapacidad para enfrentarse con su propio trauma, que es el estalinismo. La izquierda no tiene una teoría de lo que fue el estalinismo, prefiere correr un tupido velo y esto le lleva [...]

Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher and cultural critic, on the collapse of society and the failure of capitalism. Is the world ignoring signs of the so-called “end times”? According to renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek the capitalist system is pushing us all towards an apocalyptic doomsday. He points to the faltering economy, global warming and deteriorating ethnic relations as evidence. On [...]

Source: RSA November 24, 2009 Slavoj Zizek, one of the world’s most influential living philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss capitalism’s flawed priorities.

October 15, 2009 Part 1 Dubbed by the National Review as “the most dangerous political philosopher in the West” and the New York Times as “the Elvis of cultural theory,” Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. In his latest book, First as Tragedy, [...]