Living in the End Times: Updated New Edition - Softcover

Slavoj Zizek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677028 ISBN 13: 9781844677023

Publisher: Verso Books, 2011

Synopsis

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

A compendium of long passages of fierce brilliance . . . Zizek is consistently penetrating. --Steven Poole, Guardian

Never ceases to dazzle. --Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph

The thinker of choice for Europe s young intellectual vanguard ... to witness Zizek in full flight is a wonderful and at times alarming experience, part philosophical tightropewalk, part performance-art marathon, part intellectual roller-coaster ride. --Sean O'Hagan, Observer

About the Author:

SLAVOJ Zizek 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677028
• ISBN 13: 9781844677023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520