ISBN | 9781786630803 |
Call Number | HM548 .Z59 2018 |
Author | Zizek, Slavoj. (7) |
Title | Living in The End Times / Slavoj Zizek |
Imprint | New York : Verso, 2018 |
Physical | xv, 504 pages ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content | 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 |
Subject | Economics -- Sociological aspects. (8) |
| Financial crises -- Philosophy. |
| Economic history -- 21st century. |
Holding | LIC |
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