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Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times

Zizek, Slavoj

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 178663080X
ISBN13: 9781786630803
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jul 10 2018
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers--the '4 riders of the apocalypse'--in this analysis of fierce brilliance (Guardian).

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. 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, 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.

After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. Slavoj Zizek shows the cultural and political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism. Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy, Zizek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture--from literary utopias like Kafka's community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the TV series Heroes.

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