A review by piccoline
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek

4.0

Zizek challenges, as usual. In this tome he engages the question of what, then, we ought to do and/or be in this world of ours. The tone ranges from excruciatingly technical to breezy, irreverent, and enamored with popular culture. A few stretches are a slog, and his concluding pages seem strangely rushed or perfunctory, but there are so many challenging ideas here about the way we are and the current system of the world that these are minor quibbles. There's so much to enjoy along the way.

One needn't be a Marxist to be sympathetic to the idea that we are in need of an Event.