First as tragedy, then as farce
By: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781844674282
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Capitalist socialism?; title: Crisis as shock therapy; title: The structure of enemy propaganda; title: Human, all too human; title: The "new spirit" of capitalism; title: Between the two fetishisms; title: Communism, again!; title: The new enclosure of the commons; title: Socialism or communism?; title: The "public use of reason"; title: in Haiti; title: The capitalist exception; title: Capitalism with Asian values; title: in Europe; title: From profit to rent; title: "We are the ones we have been waiting for."