{"product_id":"zero-point-slavoj-zizek-9781350537842-bloomsbury-publishing","title":"Zero Point - Slavoj Žižek - 9781350537842 - Bloomsbury Publishing","description":"\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe '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 Zizek'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 - Zizek's argues nothing can be addressed meaningfully without such a confrontation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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 \u003c\/i\u003eIn a unique piece assembled chronologically from unpublished writings, Zizek wrestles with the fallout from his controversial speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2023 - a speech which saw him interrupted,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?\n\u003cp data-author=\"Slavoj Zizek\" data-genre=\"\" data-page=\"192\" data-pub=\"2025-01-01\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750499942701,"sku":"9781350537842","price":47.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3801\/5533\/files\/202601140947181301e67e8eac3014b882fbbd4ef07d08.jpg?v=1769133739","url":"https:\/\/mybuku.com\/products\/zero-point-slavoj-zizek-9781350537842-bloomsbury-publishing","provider":"MyBuku.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}