Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

‘One of our best-known living philosophers’ Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis – by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future. ‘Zizek identifies the refugee crisis as one of the major global challenges of our time … he argues for a politics of solidarity’ The Times Literary Supplement