NEW IN PAPERBACK: LIVING IN THE END TIMES
BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
With a new afterword
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SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK SPEAKING EVENTS IN LONDON
Friday July 1, 2pm
Room B34, Birkbeck Main Building,
London Critical Theory Summer School Debate
Slavoj Zizek, Drucilla Cornell and Costas Douzinas.
FREE – for more information and to register:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/publicdebates
Friday July 1, 7pm
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
Intelligence Squared Great Minds series
Slavoj Žižek will be speaking about LIVING IN THE END TIMES in a special solo lecture
For more information and to book:
http://www.versobooks.com/events/168-great-minds-slavoj-zizek
Saturday July 2, 4pm
The Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, Shadwell, London, E1 0HX
Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Julian Assange
The ‘most dangerous philosopher in the West’ meets ‘the most dangerous man in the world’ to discuss the meaning of Wikileaks for world politics and to mark the publication of LIVING IN THE END TIMES.
For more information and to book:
http://www.versobooks.com/events/178-slavoj-zizek-in-conversation-with-julian-assange
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Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek 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, Slavoj 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.
For this edition, Žižek has written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
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PRAISE FOR SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
“Superstar messiah of the new left” – OBSERVER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jun/27/slavoj-zizek-living-end-times
“An intellectual whirlwind” – DAILY TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/7871302/Slavoj-Zizek-the-worlds-hippest-philosopher.html
“Slavoj Žižek is a superstar of Elvis-like magnitude–a bogglingly dynamic whirlwind of brainpower.” DAZED AND CONFUSED
PRAISE FOR LIVING IN THE END TIMES ;
“If Žižek is ŕ la mode just now, that’s because he’s on the ball: no-one else reads our situation with quite his subtlety or verve. The Slovenian sage makes a good-humoured Jeremiah, ranging with wit and perceptiveness over everything from the melting polar ice-cap to pornography.” – SCOTSMAN
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/John-McTernan-A-defiant-voice.6407369.jp?articlepage=1
“Slavoj Žižek may well be the last great thinker of our time. In an era when lighting on one half-formed notion the end of history, the third way, Islamo-fascism is enough to get one hailed as a public intellectual to rival Russell or Sartre, the Slovenian philosopher puts all conceptual comers to shame.” – DAILY TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7916506/Living-in-the-End-Times-by-Slavoj-Zizek-review.html
“A compendium of long passages of fierce brilliance,” – GUARDIAN
“It’s hard not to be seduced by this thinker who has, almost single-handedly, repoliticised philosophy, taking us out of the postmodern doldrums...will Žižek lead you to join a revolutionary organization? No ,the greater danger is that you will become addicted to consuming nothing but books by Žižek” – Ewan Morrison, SCOTSMAN writer’s choice.
“As a raconteur whose theme is the pervasiveness of ideology, Žižek is great company.” – 3AM
“Packs in a bewildering array of insight and criticism from Haiti to 1968” - COUNTERFIRE
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SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, and literature to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy. He is the author of over 30 books. 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 senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 702 3 / $22.95 / Ł12.99 / $28.50 CAN / Paperback / 520 pages
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