What Does Europe Want?: The Union and Its Discontents

by Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat

Book Overview

Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. To general observers, the European Union's economic woes appear to be its greatest problem, but the real peril is an ongoing ideological-political crisis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231171072
• ISBN13: 9780231171076
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher