What does Europe want? : the Union and its discontents /

Slavoj Žižek 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 g...

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Authors / Creators: Žižek, Slavoj (Author), Horvat, Srećko (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Horvat, Srećko, author.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Insurrections.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • 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. Žižek
  • Danke Deutschland! / S. Horvat
  • When the blind are leading the blind, democracy is the victim / S. Žižek
  • Why the EU needs Croatia more than Croatia needs the EU / S. Horvat
  • What does Europe want? / S. Žižek
  • Are the Nazis living on the moon? / S. Horvat
  • The return of the Christian-conservative revolution / S. Žižek
  • In the land of blood and money : Angelina Jolie and the Balkans / S. Horvat
  • The Turkish march / S. Žižek
  • War and peace in Europe : 'bei den sorglosen' / S. Horvat
  • Save us from the saviours : Europe and the Greeks / S. Žižek
  • 'I'm not racist, but ... the Blacks are coming!' / S. Horvat
  • Shoplifters of the world unite / S. Žižek
  • Do markets have feelings? / S. Horvat
  • The courage to cancel the debt / S. Žižek
  • The easiest way to the Gulag is to joke about the Gulag / S. Horvat
  • We need a Margaret Thatcher of the Left / S. Žižek
  • Europe will be either democratic and social or it will no longer exist (interview) / A. Tsipras
  • 'The role of the European Left' (debate) / S. Žižek and A. Tsipras
  • Afterword : Europe is dead, long live Europe! / S. Horvat.