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Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours Hardcover – 21 Apr 2016

by Slavoj Žižek (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 8 customer reviews
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  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane; 01 edition (21 April 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0241278848
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241278840
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 1.7 x 20.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 18,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Less Than Nothing, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and, most recently, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.

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4.0 out of 5 starsMore Interesting than Birlliant
By Benjamin Rogers on 6 Jun. 2016
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I have a sneaking suspicion that my own interaction with popular left-wing philosopher Slavoj Zizek, resembles that of many others across the political spectrum. Keen more often than not to listen to any of his television appearances or to watch any of his larger public addresses via YouTube, I have always found the Slovenian intellectual, who seems in his general ‘feel good’ nature to be the left wing’s response to Boris Johnson, more entertaining than genuinely interesting and consequently Against the Double Blackmail, is the first time that I have ever decided to venture into reading any of his extensive written output.

For anyone who likewise is familiar with Zizek without having read him, it must be confirmed that he writes in exactly the same esoteric fashion in which he expresses himself when he speaks. This quite obviously entails the same merits and drawbacks. King of the shaggy dog story and the ability to go off on obscure tangents, Zizek can often invest so much effort in entertaining his reader, that it unfortunately acts to the severe detriment of any substantive points that he is otherwise trying to make. A case in point is found in one of the several essays in this work that has the expressed focus of critiquing the ugly characteristics of conservative Islam, which in fact spends more time talking about a bizarre case of reverse racism concerning the indigenous tribes of Canada. Sadly this isn’t the only instance in which you can find yourself either confused or even nodding off, due to the lack of any forward direction in the psychoanalytic house of mirrors that Zizek erects.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsRefugees, hypocrisy and class struggle
By Mike Robbins on 15 July 2016
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“Refugees,” says Slavoj Žižek, “are the price humanity is paying for the global economy.” They are a result of global inequalities, and slamming down the drawbridge will not help, for mass-migrations are an inevitable part of the future, especially as climate change begins to bite. However, opening the floodgates and letting large numbers of refugees into Europe is an equally futile response, and can only cause trouble; in the end, we won’t like them and they won’t like us. Better to understand that this is all the result of global class struggle, and engage with it. Half-measures will get us nowhere.

That’s the core message of this bleak little book. It’s a polemic that has virtually nothing optimistic or generous in its 25,000-odd words. But it does have some intriguing insights, and its central, Marxian, message of global class war makes alarming sense.

It’s fair to say Žižek doesn’t like liberals much. Early in his argument he condemns the hypocrisy arguing for open borders for refugees. Everyone knows it won’t happen, because it would “trigger a populist revolt”, so advocating it is a self-indulgence of those who want to present themselves as “beautiful souls”. In the same vein, he argues against opening the doors to refugees for humane reasons, and insists that there are limits to human empathy. Do not pretend we can empathise with refugees, he says. And don’t expect them to be grateful to us for being rich. Žižek cites the New Year’s Eve 2015 disturbances in Cologne, when large numbers of women were assaulted, apparently by refugees. In a bizarre but interesting comparison, he then quotes a 1731 incident in Paris in which printers’ apprentices murdered cats because their master’s wife pampered them while they starved.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA good new addition to the Zizek library
By Amazon Customer on 15 May 2016
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Catches Zizek is more applied mode than normal, and it feels more like a pamphlet as a result. That said he is in good form on the contradictions and hypocrisies of Europe today and expresses ideas, that he has explored elsewhere in more depth, with real lucidity.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSome really interesting points!
By keen reader on 8 Oct. 2016
Format: Hardcover
Zizek bulldozes his way through the BS to take on some meaty and controversial subjects, like global capitalism and the Abrahamic religions, exposing the hypocrisy and problems their ancient laws can create very modern problems and inhibit progress and critical thinking. He also traces the origins of the mass migration from Africa and the Middle East. He exposes the oil rich theocracies for their lack of Islamic, immigrant absorption He also takes Turkey and Israel to task on their conflicting and complex motives regarding their policy on ISIS.

Zizek reminds me of Hitchens at his best and covers some similar points to Andrew Anthony in his excellent “ The Fallout”. Zizek draws on many examples from around the globe quoting a whole host of relevant and interesting thinkers and writers along the way. I would like to have seen his ideas and opinions developed further, though I suppose it’s better too little making you wanting more than the other way round.
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