“Liberals Made Trump Their Fetish!”
From war communism and sexuality to Artificial Intelligence and his son’s hypothetical death – the unmatched philosopher Slavoj Žižek chats to Owen Jones about everything on his (rather chaotic) mind.
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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