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Books

Too Late To Awaken by Slavoj Žižek

T.W.J. Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.

In order to change humanity’s fate, to avoid catastrophe, we must perceive the future differently, redefining its trajectory; only if we make a radical change within ourselves can this be achieved. This is the premise of Too Late To Awaken, the latest work by the ever-controversial Slavoj Žižek, which at times reads more like a political manifesto than a philosophy book. When considering the future, we often perceive in it humanity’s annihilation, whether through ecological disaster or nuclear warfare. But for Žižek, this is not inevitable.

His provocative books are known to sometimes confuse, contradict, or enrage their readers, and Too Late is no different.

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