Living in the End Times
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- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2018
Summary
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But 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, Žižek 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 thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786630803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178663080X |
| Series: | The Essential Zizek |
| Author: | Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 33mm |
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Such passion, in a man whose work forms a shaky, cartoon rope-bridge between the minutiae of popular culture and the big abstract problems of existence, is invigorating, entertaining and expanding enquiring minds around the world. – Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the 80s: the thinker of choice for Europe’s young intellectual vanguard. * Observer *Fierce brilliance … scintillating. – Steven Poole * Guardian *
About The Author
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include Less Than Nothing, The Sublime Object of Ideology, and many more.
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