Zizek, Slavoj.
First as tragedy, then as farce / Slavoj Zizek. - London : Verso, 2009. - 157 p. ; 20 cm. NFIC
Includes bibliographical references.
Capitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human-- -- The "new spirit" of capitalism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new enclosure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" -- --in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with Asian values-- in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.
9781844674282 (pbk.) 1844674282 (pbk.)
2010275858
Globalization--Philosophy.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Philosophy.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
HB501 / .Z59 2009
337.01
First as tragedy, then as farce / Slavoj Zizek. - London : Verso, 2009. - 157 p. ; 20 cm. NFIC
Includes bibliographical references.
Capitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human-- -- The "new spirit" of capitalism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new enclosure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" -- --in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with Asian values-- in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.
9781844674282 (pbk.) 1844674282 (pbk.)
2010275858
Globalization--Philosophy.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Philosophy.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
HB501 / .Z59 2009
337.01