Do We Have the Right to a Person?

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I would like to live, this is my positive dogma, in a society where certain values for which we were fighting for a long time. I agree with this critique of the first generation feminists. Forbl another madness. We can all say we want a good dogma that agrees with a and make opy day at sist. Do you notice the question of torture? Ramsfeld began with it, boarding or wat water burning, is not torts. All that stuff, tortservos. And what is happening now is that, and that's horrible declagation, we have again to debate about this. Do we have the right to a person? What does it mean? R

Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.

In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos.

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