Event: Philosophy in Transit

Event: Philosophy in TransitCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781846146268 Format: A format paperback Year: 2014 Publisher: Penguin UK Pages: 224 Description: 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781846146268
Format: A-format paperback
Year: 2014
Publisher: Penguin UK
Pages: 224


Description:
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.