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Are we free to live our lives as we want? We might think so, but philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that this apparent freedom is actually governed by a complex series of conditions. For Žižek, a 'pathetic, old romantic', the highest form of freedom is in fact loveThe books Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek and Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova are out now, published by Verso