Event: Philosophy in Transit
Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 9781846146268
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 181mm x 112mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
What is really happening when something happens?
In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj Zizek, 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, the emergence of a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love. After an event, nothing remains the same even if there are no obvious large changes.
Taking us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, Zizek addresses fundamental questions such as- 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.
ISBN: 9781846146268
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 181mm x 112mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
What is really happening when something happens?
In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj Zizek, 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, the emergence of a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love. After an event, nothing remains the same even if there are no obvious large changes.
Taking us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, Zizek addresses fundamental questions such as- 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.
