Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century

Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change

Slavoj Zizek editor Brian Willems editor Nicol A Barria-Asenjo editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:22nd Nov '23

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Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we find ourselves today.

The editors argue that we are living in a repetition that must be stopped – if our goal is that the signifier "humanity" remains in the following centuries, the time has come to work in the present. The objective is not to deliver precise or quick answers, but to gather varied voices from different continents, bringing together different languages, ideas, practices, theories, thoughts, and desires. In the words of Yanis Varoufakis, "urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom." To leave the concept of a manifesto open, the contradictory aspects of the chapters are a subject of the manifesto itself. This is a manifesto of contradictions that reflects our reality as well as our struggles and our aspirations.

This unique anthology will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences interested in critical theory and social change.

"We share the desire for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and can recognize that it’s untenable to claim them for ourselves but deny them to others. Together with darker motives like greed and vengeance, we have capacities for empathy, self-control, cognitive faculties that can solve problems, and language, which can share the solutions. These existential challenges, and our species’ best response to them, are addressed in the book Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change."

Steven Pinker, Harvard University

"The 21st century now has several Manifestos. Manifestos that announce an anti-neoliberal world, a multipolar world, a world of all and for all. A world where all worlds fit."

Emir Sader, Brazilian political scientist, philosopher, academic, and activist

"The interpellation of these "Manifestos" lies basically in not resigning in the face of the common condition of the struggles. We must cross the particularity of the different struggles and articulate them in a new international project that goes beyond sectorial and identity-based demands."

Jorge Alemán, Argentine psychoanalyst, militant, and poet

ISBN: 9781032584195

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Weight: 520g

300 pages