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001 2010275858
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020 $a9781844674282 (pbk.)
020 $a1844674282 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn317919532
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050 00 $aHB501$b.Z59 2009
100 1 $aŽižek, Slavoj.
245 10 $aFirst as tragedy, then as farce /$cSlavoj Žižek.
260 $aLondon :$bVerso,$c2009.
300 $a157 p. ;$c20 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aCapitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human-- -- The "new spirit" of capitalism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new enclosure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" -- --in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with Asian values-- in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
520 $a"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.
650 0 $aGlobalization$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence.