Foreword: The Destruction of Greece as a Model for All of Europe: Is this the Future that Europe Deserves?, by Alexis Tsipras Preface: What Does the U.S. Want, or What to Do After Occupy?, by Srecko Horvat 1. Breaking Our Eggs without the Omelette, from Cyprus to Greece, by Slavoj Zizek 2. Danke Deutschland!, by Srecko Horvat 3. When the Blind Are Leading the Blind, Democracy Is the Victim, by Slavoj Zizek 4. Why the EU Needs Croatia More than Croatia Needs the EU, by Srecko Horvat 5. What Does Europe Want?, by Slavoj Zizek 6. Are the Nazis Living on the Moon?, by Srecko Horvat 7. The Return of the Christian-conservative Revolution, by Slavoj Zizek 8. In the Land of Blood and Money: Angelina Jolie and the Balkans, by Srecko Horvat 9. The Turkish March, by Slavoj Zizek 10. War and Peace in Europe: 'Bei den Sorglosen', by Srecko Horvat 11. Save Us from the Saviours: Europe and the Greeks, by Slavoj Zizek 12. 'I'm Not Racist, but ... the Blacks are Coming!', by Srecko Horvat 13. Shoplifters of the World Unite, by Slavoj Zizek 14. Do Markets Have Feelings?, by Srecko Horvat 15. The Courage to Cancel the Debt, by Slavoj Zizek 16. The Easiest Way to the Gulag Is to Joke About the Gulag, by Srecko Horvat 17. We Need a Margaret Thatcher of the Left, by Slavoj Zizek 18. Europe Will Be Either Democratic and Social or It Will No Longer Exist (interview by Srecko Horvat), by Alexis Tsipras 19. The Role of the European Left (debate), by Slavoj Zizek and Alexis Tsipras Afterword: Europe Is Dead, Long Live Europe!, by Srecko Horvat Notes
In this book, Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise in right-wing nationalism, which is directly tied to the fallout from the ongoing financial crisis and its prescription of imposed austerity. The best hope, they argue, is for Europe to revive its legacy of universal egalitarianism, preserving the promise of equal representation.
Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, University of Ljubljana, and at the European Graduate School. Among his most recent books are Demanding the Impossible, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, and The Sublime Object of Ideology. He is a coeditor of Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic and a contributor to Democracy in What State?, What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters, and Reimagining the Sacred: Debating God with Richard Kearney. Srecko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher and the author of nine books. He is also a highly respected political theorist and activist, and a columnist for The Guardian. His latest book is After the End of History: From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement.
What Does Europe Want? deals with the crisis in a highly polemical and exciting way. One feels that one is involved in the discussions as they are taking place. This means that the text is highly readable but at the same time provides us with some important political, economic, and psychological background to many of the aspects of the crisis which tend to go unexamined or unreported. -- Peter Thompson, Sheffield An outstanding book-radical in the best sense of the word. What Does Europe Want? gets to the root of the matter and gives political theory material force. Horvat is a rising star in philosophy, while Zizek is a theoretical tsunami. By reading the signs from the future, this book cuts through propaganda and ideological mystification to expose the increasing danger threatening the EU. -- Kelsey Wood, author of Zizek: A Reader's Guide A Slovenian madman and a charismatic Croatian philosopher, joined by Greece's most dangerous politician, offer an analysis of the European deadlock in a way that is bitingly charming and bitterly intelligent. Any real European, faithful to the real idea of Europe, must read this. -- Oliver Stone, American film director, screenwriter, producer The pages of this book resonate with the authors' powerful demolition of the EU's Orwellian propaganda. Readers who care about Europe have a duty to share in Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat's energy, irrespectively of whether they agree with them or not. -- Yanis Varoufakis, author of The Global Minotaur: A Theory of the Global Crisis and Game Theory How can we break, once and for all, the foundation of social apathy on which the construction of Europe since 1989 is built on? The active participation of the masses in politics is the only thing that can truly frighten the ruling elite in Europe and worldwide. And that's exactly why we should make it happen. -- Alexis Tsipras, Greek politican, president of SYRIZA Full of relevance and merit...Zizek and Horvat provide a deeply engaging and insightful polemic on how Europe went wrong - and how it can recover. Publishers Weekly
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