From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo

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Slavoj Žižek & Agon Hamza – From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo

I managed to obtain a  very fragmented copy of an upcoming English book written by Slavoj Žižek & Agon Hamza titled From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo, so for now I can at least share the books contents:

Contents

Introduction — Slavoj Žižek & Agon Hamza
NATO as the left hand of God? — Slavoj Žižek

The Impasse of the Left
Human Rights and Their Obverse
The Ideology of Victimisation
The Carnival in the Eye of the Storm
The SECOND Way
The Obscenity of Humanitarian Bio-Politics
The Lie of De-Politicization

Beyond Independence — Agon Hamza

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Slavoj Žižek is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College. His latest publication include Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, Living in the End Times, and many more.

Agon Hamza is writing his PhD in philosophy. He is the editor of Për Althusserin [For Althusser], Ese të Zgjedhura [Selected Essays], by Slavoj Žižek (co-editor), both in Albanian. He is a member of KMD, Prishtina.

Book Endorsments

Of what is Kosovo a symptom? Žižek’s initial provocation and Hamza’s relentless continuation will enrage anyone who looks to culture, ethnicity, and neoliberalism to explain the tragedy of the Balkans. Only those willing to confront their own humanitarian fantasies will have the strength necessary to en-counter the truth in these brave, important essays.  – Jodi Dean, author of The Communist Horizon

Thinking about recent Balkan developments – and tragedies – has been dominated, for too long by varieties of nationalist, simplistically anti-imperialist, and ‘realist’ discourses. What has been missing is a critical theoretical discourse that will not only deconstruct these discourses, but also attempt to bring forward how recent political developments, from the NATO bombings in 1999 to the proclamation of Kosova independence, have also been determined by attempts to create conditions favorable to the most aggressive neoliberal politics. The two texts in this volume offer exactly this kind of critical theoretical scrutiny that is most needed than ever, if we want to avoid seeing not only Kosova but the Balkans in general being turned into vast laboratories of neoliberal social engineering.  —Panagiotis Sotiris, Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean