First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (eBook)

Slavoj Zizek (Autor)

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2009 | Ebook UK & RoW
176 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78168-377-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2009
• Reihe/Serie: The Essential Zizek
• Reihe/Serie: The Essential Zizek
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Environmental Crisis • Financial Crisis • global warming • Inequality • Liberalism • Marxism • Philosophers • Philosophy • political theory • Politics
• ISBN-10: 1-78168-377-8 / 1781683778
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-377-4 / 9781781683774