{"product_id":"9781350537842","title":"Zero Point","description":"Author: Zizek, Slavoj\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350537842\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eZero Point\u003c\/i\u003e ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 'zero-point' of the title is ground level, rock bottom, the place to which one retreats and where one regroups. Taken from Vladimir Lenin's 1922 piece 'On Ascending a High Mountain, in which Lenin considers the complexities of how one 'retreats' while keeping faith in the cause, the central simile of the climber offers a blueprint for resilience, flexibility, and the persistence of hope. This is the revolutionary as living out the Beckettian motto- 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' In   i  ek's hands, this becomes the formula for confronting the antagonisms of existing world order. With a particular focus on the Middle East -the point at which all our tensions threaten to explode       i  ek argues nothing can be addressed meaningfully without such a confrontation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe consequences of eschewing apolitical acts of solidarity and choosing to attempt to speak truth to power are reckoned with in the second half of \u003ci\u003eZero Point. \u003c\/i\u003eIn a unique piece assembled chronologically from unpublished writings,   i  ek wrestles with the fallout from his controversial speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2023 - a speech which saw him interrupted, condemned and accused of anti-Semitism. The reader bears witness as Zizek processes the criticism, evolves his thinking and explores the full ethical, political and personal ramifications of the question- When is the right time to speak?","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46655859196062,"sku":"UBD-9781350537842","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350537842.jpg?v=1774835681","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350537842","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}