First as Tragedy, Then as Farce - The Essential Zizek
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce - The Essential Zizek
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10 July, 2018
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Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs.
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781786635938 |
| ISBN10 | 1786635933 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 147 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 11 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Verso Books |
| Format | paperback |
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Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation. * New Yorker *
One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left. * Times Literary Supplement *
Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek ... one of the world's best-known public intellectuals. -- John Gray * New York Review of Books *
A gifted speaker-tumultuous, emphatic, direct-he writes as he speaks. -- Jonathan Rée * Guardian *
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Author's Bio
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include Less Than Nothing, The Sublime Object of Ideology, and many more.