Events and Encounters Explain Our Fear of Falling in Love

Slavoj Žižek takes us through some of the concepts presented in his book, “Ev[image error]ent.” The philosopher and social critic explains what events are, how they necessarily create their own causes, and why they explain the 21st century fear of falling in love.[image error]

What’s an event. It’s a difficult question not because we lack definitions but because there are too many definitions. In my book I focus on event in the sense of something extraordinary takes place. But with all this wide span of what we c...