Living in the end times /

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Author / Creator:	Žižek, Slavoj.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Verso, 2010.
Description:	xv, 416 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Economics -- Sociological aspects. Financial crises -- Philosophy. Economic history -- 21st century. Capitalism -- 21st century. Capitalism. Economic history. Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8057528

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ISBN:	9781844675982 (hbk.) 184467598X (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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, Slavok 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. After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, 'There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent.' Slavoj Zizek shows the cultural and political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism. Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy, Zizek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture -- from literary utopias like Kafka's community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the TV series Heroes." -- Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : "The spiritual wickedness in the heavens"
1. Denial : the liberal utopia
Against the tartar-lovers
Legalists versus Confucians
No castes without outcasts
Legal luck, or, the loop of the act
The utopia for a race of devils
Coda: Multiculturalism, the reality of an illusion
Interlude 1. Hollywood today : report from an ideological battlefield
What does the Joker want?
The sad lesson of remakes
Les non-dupes errent
The price of survival
2. Anger : the actuality of the theologico-political
Thinking backwards
"Nothing is forbidden in my faith"
"I did not come to bring peace, but a sword"
Guevara as a reader of Rousseau
Slap thy neighbor!
The subject supposed not to know
Interlude 2. Reverberations of the crisis in a multi-centric world
"The Jew is within you, but you, you are in the Jew"
Zionist anti-Semitism
China, Haiti, Congo
Europe : US-Kant : Hegel?
3. Bargaining : the return of the critique of political economy
"Dare to win!"
In defense of a non-Marxist Marx
Why masses are not divided into classes
The labor theory of value revisited
From Hegel to Marx... and back
Proletarians or rentiers?
Interlude 3. The architectural parallax
Postmodernism and class struggle
The incommensurability
The envelope...
...of the class struggle
Spandrels
4. Depression : the neuronal trauma, or, the rise of the proletarian cogito
Cogito against historicism
The Freudian unconscious versus the cerebral unconscious
The libidinal proletariat
Interlude 4. Apocalypse at the gates
My own private Austria
The ubuism of power
Welcome to the anthropocene
Versions of the Apocalypse
5. Acceptance : the cause regained
In 1968, structures walked the streets : will they do so again?
Signs from the future : Kafka, Platonov, Sturgeon, Vertov, Satie
Violence between discipline and obscenity
The infinite judgment of democracy
The agent.

Living in the end times /

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