What does Europe want? : the Union and its discontents / Slavoj �Zi�zek, Sre�cko Horvat ; foreword, Alexis Tsipras.
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TextSeries: InsurrectionsPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 204 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231538411
- 0231538413
- European Union
- European Union
- Equality before the law -- European Union countries
- Representative government and representation -- European Union countries
- Civil rights -- European Union countries
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy
- Civil rights
- Equality before the law
- Representative government and representation
- Europe -- European Union countries
- 327.4 23
- JN30
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Slavoj �Zi�zek 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.
Foreword : The destruction of Greece as a model for all of Europe : is this the future that Europe deserves? / Alexis Tsipras -- Preface : What does the U.S. want, or what to do after occupy? / S. Horvat -- Breaking our eggs without the omelette, from Cyprus to Greece / S. �Zi�zek -- Danke Deutschland! / S. Horvat -- When the blind are leading the blind, democracy is the victim / S. �Zi�zek -- Why the EU needs Croatia more than Croatia needs the EU / S. Horvat -- What does Europe want? / S. �Zi�zek -- Are the Nazis living on the moon? / S. Horvat -- The return of the Christian-conservative revolution / S. �Zi�zek -- In the land of blood and money : Angelina Jolie and the Balkans / S. Horvat -- The Turkish march / S. �Zi�zek -- War and peace in Europe : 'bei den sorglosen' / S. Horvat -- Save us from the saviours : Europe and the Greeks / S. �Zi�zek -- 'I'm not racist, but ... the Blacks are coming!' / S. Horvat -- Shoplifters of the world unite / S. �Zi�zek -- Do markets have feelings? / S. Horvat -- The courage to cancel the debt / S. �Zi�zek -- The easiest way to the Gulag is to joke about the Gulag / S. Horvat -- We need a Margaret Thatcher of the Left / S. �Zi�zek -- Europe will be either democratic and social or it will no longer exist (interview) / A. Tsipras -- 'The role of the European Left' (debate) / S. �Zi�zek and A. Tsipras -- Afterword : Europe is dead, long live Europe! / S. Horvat.
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