Title: What does Europe want?: the Union and its discontents
Author(s): Horvat, Srećko; Žižek, Slavoj
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 239
ISBN: 978-0-231-53841-1, 0231538413, 978-0-231-17106-9, 978-0-231-17107-6
Size: 15 Mb
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Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. To general observers, the European Union's economic woes appear to be its greatest problem, but the real peril is an ongoing Read more...
Abstract: Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. To general observers, the European Union's economic woes appear to be its greatest problem, but the real peril is an ongoing ideological-political crisis that threatens an era of instability and reactionary brutality. The fall of communism in 1989 seemed to end the leftist program of universal emancipation.