Living in the End Times - Softcover

Zizek, Slavoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677028 ISBN 13: 9781844677023

Verlag: Verso Books, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek 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, Zizek 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.
For this edition, Zizek has written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizek, and many more.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677028
• ISBN 13: 9781844677023
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 520
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar