“Maybe We Need a Leftist Napoleon?”
In this final part of his conversation with Owen Jones, the unparalleled Slavoj Žižek takes us from the French Revolution to the looming collapse of the West – ripping into the contradictions of Western hubris, and proposing a radical new alliance between Europe and China (despite his own books being banned there!)
Slavoj Žižek 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 Like a Thief in Broad Daylight.
Owen Jones was born in Sheffield, grew up in Stockport and studied history at Oxford. His first book, the international bestseller Chavs, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and chosen as one of The New York Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2011. In 2013 he won Young Writer of the Year at the Political Book Awards. His second book was the bestselling The Establishment: and How They Get Away With It, an exposé of Britain’s powerful elites. He is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster.
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