First as Tragedy, Then as Farce - by Slavoj Zizek (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Analysis of the current global crisis arguing that the financial meltdown signals the end of the idea of global capitalism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The leading philosopher of our time tackles the demise of liberalism, from the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.</b> <p/>Billions of dollars were 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? <br>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. <p/><i>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard."<br> <b>--<i>Observer</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Slavoj <b>Zizek</b></b> 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 L<i>iving in the End Times, Less Than Nothing, In Defense of Lost Causes, </i>four volumes of the <i>Essential Zizek</i>, and many more.
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