First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been...
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Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Žižek 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 right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine, and as an economic theory.
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
- Format:
- Pages:157 pages
- Publication:2009
- Publisher:Verso Books
- Edition:
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:1844674282
- ISBN13:9781844674282
- kindle Asin:B004OA6KGK