First as tragedy, then as farce

Zizek, Slavoj

First as tragedy, then as farce - New Delhi Navayana 2009 - 157p. 20 cm.

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.

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Globalization--Philosophy.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Philosophy.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

HB501 / .Z59 2009

337.01 / ZI-F

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