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Informationen zum Autor Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher! Lacanian psychoanalyst! and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University! Seoul. His previous books include Living in the End Times! First as Tragedy! Then as Farce! Trouble in Paradise and! most recently! The Courage of Hopelessness . Klappentext Today! hundreds of thousands of people! desperate to escape war! violence and poverty! are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint! argues Slavoj Zizek! offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad! states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem! rather than tackling it. The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity! a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but! if we are to do so! we have to start raising unpleasant and difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change! one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat! but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being
