The Courage of HopelessnessThe maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political, and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible. In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj iek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopelessthat