Revolution At the Gates - Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings

Informationen zum Autor Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times , First as Tragedy, Then as Farce , In Defense of Lost Causes , four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov , better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917. Klappentext Lenin's writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Whatever the discussion--the forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility of redeeming violence, the falsity of liberal tolerance--Slavoj Ž iž ek believes that Lenin's time has come again. Zusammenfassung Lenin's writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history.

Product details

• Authors: V I Lenin, V. I. Lenin, V.i. Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin
• Assisted by: Zi& (Editor), Slavoj Zizek (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2004
• EAN: 9781859845462
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-546-2
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary essays, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Marxism & Communism, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet