num_pages: 120
description: As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek to uncover its deeper meanings marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and speculate on the profundity of its consequences all in a manner that will have you sweating profusely and gasping for breath?We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when according to iek a new form of communism may be the only way of averting a descent into global barbarism.Written with his customary brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and H.G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx in these pages) iek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the crisis as it widens engulfing us all.iek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized and is master of the counterintuitive observation. The New YorkerThe most dangerous philosopher in the West. Adam Kirsch The New Republic
language: English
title: Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
publisher: OR Books