First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Zizek, Slavoj

ISBN 10: 1844674282 / ISBN 13: 9781844674282

Editore: Verso Books, 2009

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Titolo: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Casa editrice: Verso Books

Data di pubblicazione: 2009

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. 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 Žižek 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.

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.

Recensione:

A characteristically enjoyable development of his recent journalistic commentary (Berlusconi as Kung Fu Panda), which digs joyfully into the ideological cracks of the financial crisis so as to enlarge them, and declares confidently that 'The future will thus be communist . . . or socialist'. --Steven Poole, Guardian

A typically trenchant account of the farce of capitalism and future of communism, which in Zizek's hands is a flaming red banner confronting and affronting the deadly grey of capitalist conformity, confirming him as one of our most daring and unsparing contemporary thinkers. --Times Higher Education Supplement

Electrifying ... Revel in the way he can zero in on the absurdities and contradictions of the modern world. -- Nick Lezard, Guardian 'Zizek, a Marxist, writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that is spellbinding... a great provocateur and an immensely suggestive and even dashing writer.' --LA Times