First as tragedy, then as farce

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"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." The New Yorker
"The Elvis of cultural theory." Chronicle of Higher Education
"One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left." Times Literary Supplement
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 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/1 1 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory.
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce is a call for the Left to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation." The New Yorker
"The Elvis of cultural theory." Chronicle of Higher Education
"One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left." Times Literary Supplement
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 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/1 1 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died 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.
Slavoj Zizek is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of many books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Subject and In Defense of Lost Causes. Vissza