Event by Slavoj Žižek
A provocative exploration of the philosophical notion of the event as a disruptive occurrence that ruptures the existing symbolic order and inaugurates new truths, subjectivities, and political possibilities. Drawing on Hegelian, Lacanian and contemporary continental thought, the book distinguishes genuine transformative events from mere occurrences, analyzes how fidelity to an event rewrites the past and reconfigures communal bonds, and probes examples from politics, theology, art and everyday life to show how an event produces a change in structure rather than just in content.
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