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Welcome to the Desert of the Real Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Zizek Slavoj
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781781680193
Publisert
2013-01-16
Utgiver
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Verso Books
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232 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
206

Forfatter
Zizek Slavoj

Biographical note

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Zizek Slavoj
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
Zizek Slavoj
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
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Fierce brilliance ... scintillating.

- Steven Poole, Guardian (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Never ceases to dazzle.

- Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.

Observer (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.
Les mer
Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Zizek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11

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Fierce brilliance ... scintillating.

- Steven Poole, Guardian (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Never ceases to dazzle.

- Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.

Observer (in praise of <em>Living in the End Times</em>)

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.
Les mer
Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Zizek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781680193
Publisert
2013-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
232 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
206

Forfatter
Zizek Slavoj

Biographical note

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

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