EAN: 9781786635938

FIRST AS TRAGEDY THEN AS FARCE - SLAVOJ ZIZEK K...

Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at
financial stabilisation. 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. The election of
Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs.    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.

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