BESTSELLING TITLE:
LIVING IN THE END TIMES
By SLAVOJ ZIZEK
Published
21 April 2010
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Monday 8 November, 7pm, The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7
East 7th Street, New York
Slavoj Zizek will be making a major
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“Zizek
leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the
counterintuitive observation.” New Yorker
“A
great provocateur... Zizek writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that is
spellbinding.”
“The most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
New Republic
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Zizek 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 Zizek 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.
After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a
chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, “There is great
disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent.” Slavoj Zizek shows
the cultural and political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and
political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious
fundamentalism. Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a
Marxian critique of political economy, Zizek also divines the wellsprings of a
potentially communist culture—from literary utopias like Kafka’s
community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the TV series Heroes.
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Slavoj Zizek
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. The author of over 30 books, Slavoj Zizek’s provocative
prose has challenged a generation of activists and intellectuals. His latest book
is Living
in the End Times.
Called the
“Elvis of cultural theory” and the “greatest intellectual
high since anti-Oedipus” Zizek’s work has appeared in the The New
York Times, the New Yorker and The
Guardian, and he has appeared in Astra Taylor's feature length films Zizek! and
Examined Life. He is a professor at the
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 598 2 / $29.95 / 432 pages
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