Living in the End Times (The Essential Zizek)

by SlavojZizek (Author), Slavoj Zizek (Author)

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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, 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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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, 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 26 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 178663080X
ISBN 13: 9781786630803

Media Reviews

Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation. - New Yorker One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left. - Times Literary Supplement Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek ... one of the world's best-known public intellectuals. - John Gray, New York Review of Books A gifted speaker-tumultuous, emphatic, direct-he writes as he speaks. - Jonathan Ree, Guardian

Author Bio

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, Less Than Nothing, In Defense of Lost Causes, The Sublime Object of Ideology, and many more.