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  • Published: 6 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241651759
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

Too Late to Awaken

What Lies Ahead When There is no Future?




The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament

We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour?

Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Zizek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty, Zizek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the past.

  • Published: 6 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241651759
  • Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $45.00

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Praise for Too Late to Awaken

The most dangerous philosopher in the West

Adam Kirsch, New Republic

Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative

Guardian

Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation

New Yorker

Never ceases to dazzle

Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph

Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard

Observer
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