Book Review on Slavoj Zizek’s Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-human Capitalism

Ruben, Jr Obrar Balotol

Book Review on Slavoj Zizek’s Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-human Capitalism

Ruben, Jr Obrar Balotol

Abstract

Slavoj Žižek is an extremely interesting philosopher of our time who translated the philosophy of Hegel, Marx and the psychology of Lacan into a formidable scholarship and activism. Importantly, his philosophy participates in Alain Badiou’s conviction that the function of philosophy is to corrupt the youth, to alienate them from the hegemonic ideologico-political order, to spread radical doubts, and enable them to think unconventionally, boldly think dangerously

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