Trouble in paradise : from the end of history to the end of capitalism / Slavoj Zizek

By: Zizek, Slavoj.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2015.Description: 269 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 978-0-141-97954-0.Subject(s): 2000-2099 | Capitalism | CommunismDDC classification: 330.122

Contents:

Introduction -- Diagnosis -- Cardiognosis -- Prognosis -- Epignosis -- appendix -- Afterword to the paperback edition -- Notes

Summary: In "Trouble in Paradise, " Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj i[ek explores the possibilities and the traps of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, "The Dark Knight" to Thatcher, "Trouble in Paradise" is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library	330.122 ZIZ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3329

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2014
Published with a new afterword, 2015

Incl. bibliography.

Introduction -- Diagnosis -- Cardiognosis -- Prognosis -- Epignosis -- appendix -- Afterword to the paperback edition -- Notes

In "Trouble in Paradise, " Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj i[ek explores the possibilities and the traps of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, "The Dark Knight" to Thatcher, "Trouble in Paradise" is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come."

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