Un ladrón en pleno día

In his new book, Zizek raises one of the key questions of our time: what should be the role of philosophy in tackling contemporary problems? And more specifically: what kind of philosophers do we need, those who "corrupt" youth and make them think -like Socrates- or the "normalizers" -like Aristotle- who try to reconcile philosophy with the established order? According to Zizek, philosophy must combat the growing nihilistic order that wants to be sold to us as the domain of new freedoms, this worldless civilization that obviously affects the young. Faced with the alternatives of populism or religious fundamentalism, Zizek proposes the construction of new emancipatory zones, starting with the cities -among which he puts Barcelona as an example-, the rupture of patriarchal rule, the vindication of materialism and the invention of a new society that corrects the errors of capitalism and communism.