First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
| Author: | Slavoj Zizek |
| File type: | |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1844674282,9781844674282 |
| Time Added: | Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:04 GMT+0300 (MSK) |
| Author: | Slavoj Zizek |
| File type: | |
| Size: | 5 mb |
| City: | |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Id: | 390995 |
| Time Modified: | Wed Feb 13 2019 13:57:04 GMT+0300 (MSK) |
| Extension: | |
| Bibtex: | "Slavoj Zizek", |
| "First As Tragedy, Then As Farce" |
<strong>From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.</strong>
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?
In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek 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 right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory.
<em>First as Tragedy, Then as Farce</em> is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.