Living in the End Times
Living in the End Times
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Rep-lo a casa en 2 / 3 dies per Missatger o Eco Enviament*Sobre el libro Living in the End Times de Slavoj Zizek publicado por Verso al 2010:
“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, 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.
Sobre Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Žižek (Ljubljana, Eslovènia, 1949) és doctor en Filosofia i investigador de l´Institut d´Estudis Socials de Ljubljana, i professor visitant en la New School for Social Research de Nova York. Ha estat convidat a impartir classes en universitats com Université Paris-VIII, SUNY Buffalo, University of Minnesota, Tulane University, Nova Orleans, Columbia University, Nova York i Princeton University.Altres llibres de Slavoj Zizek
