Event

Resumen del libro

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj eiuek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophy. What is really happening when something happens? In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj eiuek, one of the world's greatest living philosophers, examines the new and highly-contested concept of Event. An Event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of reality, a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love.

Taking us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, Zizek addresses fundamental questions such as: Are all things connected? How much are we agents of our own fates? Which conditions must be met for us to perceive something as really existing? In a world that's constantly changing, is anything new really happening? Drawing on references from Plato to arthouse cinema, the Big Bang to Buddhism, Event is a journey into philosophy at its most exciting and elementary. Slavoj eiuek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Communist political activist. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art.

His main work is Less Than Nothing, a study on the actuality of Hegelian dialectics.

Biografía del autor

Slavoj x{0026} x0017D;ix{0026} x0017E;ek (Liubliana, 1949), filósofo, sociólogo, psicoanalista y crítico cultural, es uno de los pensadores más innovadores y carismáticos de nuestro tiempo. Es investigador en el Instituto de Sociología de la Universidad de Liubliana (Eslovenia) y profesor en diversas universidades de Estados Unidos y Europa. Ha publicado decenas de libros, traducidos a varias lenguas, en los que integra el pensamiento de Jacques Lacan con el marxismo y vincula sus reflexiones teóricas con ejemplos de la cultura popular.