Living in the end times
Book - 2011
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek 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, Žižek 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, Žižek ha...s written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
- Subjects
- Published
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London ; New York :
Verso
2011.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 504 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781844677023
- Denial : the liberal utopia
- Interlude 1. Hollywood today : report from an ideological battlefield
- Anger : the actuality of the theologico-political
- Interlude 2. Reverberations of the crisis in a multi-centric world
- Bargaining : the return of the critique of political economy
- Interlude 3. The architectural parallax
- Depression : the neuronal trauma, or, the rise of the proletarian cogito
- Interlude 4. Apocalypse at the gates
- Acceptance : the cause regained.