Slavoj Zizek, "Pandemic: The New Coronavirus that Shook the World"

Price: 1,850 yen + tax Release date: June 24, 2020
ISBN:978-4-909483-58-4
Slavoj Zizek (author), Kohei Saito (editor), Atsuko Nakabayashi (translator)

The risk of "barbarism" in a post-COVID-19 world: how can we avoid it?

In this world of COVID-19, where distance from loved ones is the greatest expression of affection and toilet paper is as valuable as a diamond, what is the "state of barbarism" that will come in the post-COVID era, where authority is showing its incompetence, and where can we avoid it?

Urgent proposal from the "most dangerous philosopher"!

table of contents

Prologue: Don't touch me.
Chapter 1 We are all in the same boat.
Chapter 2: Why am I so tired all the time?
Chapter 3: Preparing for Europe's perfect storm Chapter 4: Welcome to the virus desert Chapter 5: The five-stage epidemic model Chapter 6: The ideological virus Chapter 7: Keep calm and panic!
Chapter Eight: Surveillance and punishment? Yes, please!
Chapter 9: Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Destiny? Chapter 10: Communism or Barbarism. That's it!
Addendum: Two Helpful Letters from a Friend Samara Promise: A New Use for an Old Joke

Commentary: The Ljubljana Promise: A new use for old theories? (Kohei Saito)

Author: Slavoj Žižek
Born in Slovenia in 1949. Philosopher. Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, University of London. He has opened up new horizons in philosophy and political theory, and has extensively discussed literature and film.
His books include "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (Kawade Bunko), "Enjoy Your Symptoms" (Chikuma Shobo), "This is How to Read Lacan!" (Kinokuniya Shoten), "Postmodern Communism: First as Tragedy, Twice as Farce" (Chikuma Shinsho), and many others.

Supervised and explained by Kohei Saito
Born in 1987. Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University. Editorial committee member of the Japan MEGA Editorial Board.
His books include Before the Flood: Marx and the Metabolism of the Planet (Horinouchi Publishing, 2019).
He has supervised translations of Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Zizek's Myth, Madness, Laughter (Horinouchi Publishing, 2015), among others.
He has edited and published The End of Capitalism or the End of Humanity? A Great Divergence to the Future (Shueisha Shinsho, 2019) and Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, IV. Abteilung Band 18, De Gruyter, 2019.
In 2018, he received the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Translator Atsuko Nakabayashi Graduated from the School of Letters, Osaka University, and received an MA in Linguistics from California State University Graduate School. As a freelance translator, she translates corporate websites, pamphlets, academic materials, and other documents, mainly in the fields of medicine, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. She also works as a foreigner counselor at the city hall, helping to resolve issues facing foreign residents living in the city. Her translations include Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas (P-Vine). Her favorite things are the Filipino sweet "buko salad," Hakuho and Tenpyo Buddha statues, hedgehogs, and democracy.

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