Keep calm- and panic

The book has been put together in a remarkably short period of time and the urgency is palpable

The first book on the coronavirus crisis is here. Written by the maverick Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, it makes an urgent case for re-interpreting the world against the perspective of this unique pandemic. Mr Žižek often likes to invert Marx’s popular quote, “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in many ways; the point, however, is to change it!” into his own updated 21st century version: “We have tried to change the world too much in the 20th century; time has come to interpret it again.”

The book has been put together in a remarkably short period of time and the urgency