London, 20/04/2016. Today, the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - Forum for European Philosophy public lecture - called "Against the Double Blackmail: refugees, terror and other troubles with the neighbours" hosted by author of the homonymous book Professor Slavoj Žižek (Slovenian-born political philosopher - Marxism, German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis - and cultural critic, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology...
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London, 20/04/2016. Today, the LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - Forum for European Philosophy public lecture - called "Against the Double Blackmail: refugees, terror and other troubles with the neighbours" hosted by author of the homonymous book Professor Slavoj Žižek (Slovenian-born political philosopher - Marxism, German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis - and cultural critic, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities: Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). Chair of the event was Dr. Danielle Sands (Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at the Royal Holloway University Of London; Fellow, Forum for European Philosophy, LSE; Executive Committee Member, Society for European Philosophy). From the event online page: <<[…] From within the safety of Europe Zizek argues we face two versions of ideological blackmail - open-door solidarity with refugees and drawbridge-minded protectionism. Both prolong the problem – so, confronted with this double blackmail, we find ourselves back at the great question: what is to be done? The refugee crisis offers to Europe an opportunity: a unique chance to redefine itself. The only way, argues Zizek, to truly get to the heart of one of the greatest and most urgent issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such global solidarity is a utopia. But, he warns, if we don’t engage in it, then we are really lost. […]>>.
Here there is the link to podcast of the lecture:
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