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Against Progress

Paperback • 2025 • English

Against Progress

By Slavoj Žižek

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To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Žižek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises? In thirteen iconoclastic essays, ...Show more

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9781350515857

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2025

Language

English

Original title

Against Progress

Format

Paperback

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