Living in the End Times - Rilegato

Zizek, Slavoj

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ISBN 10: 184467598X ISBN 13: 9781844675982

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2010

Riassunto

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj i ek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Slavok i ek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal.

After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, “There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent.” Slavoj i ek shows the cultural and political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism. Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy, i ek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture—from literary utopias like Kafka’s community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the TV series Heroes.

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Addictively eclectic He contrives to leave the reader, as usual, both exhilarated and disoriented, standing in the middle of a scorched plain strewn with the rubble of smashed idols. --Steven Poole, Guardian

Exhilarating, inspiring, thought-provoking. --David Schneider, Prospect

One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left. --Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 184467598X
• ISBN 13: 9781844675982
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416