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Is [[global]] emancipation a lost [[cause]]? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the [[postmodern]] [[world]], [[ideologies]] of all kinds have been cast in [[doubt]]. In this combative new [[work]], renowned theorist Slavoj [[Zizek]] takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several “lost causes.” From a provocative redemption of Heidegger’s engagement with the [[Third]] [[Reich]] as “a [[right]] step in the wrong direction” to reasserting [[class]] [[struggle]] as the underlying [[reality]] of global [[capitalism]], to a [[defense]] of the emancipatory legacy of [[Christianity]] against New Age spiritualism, Zizek confronts the failures of contemporary [[theory]] and proposes unexpected resolutions. "Is the minimal [[difference]] in [[politics]] not the one between [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]]? In a [[letter]] to Herbert [[Marcuse]] from 20 January [[1948]], [[Heidegger]] wrote: "To the serious legitimate charges that you express [[about]] a [[regime]] that murdered millions of [[Jews]]...' I can merely add that if instead of 'Jews' you had written 'East Germans,' then the same holds [[true]] for one of the allies, with the difference that everything that has occurred since 1945 has become [[public]] [[knowledge]], while the bloody [[terror]] of the [[Nazis]] in point of fact had been kept a [[secret]] from the [[German]] [[people]]." Marcuse was fully justified in replying that the thin difference between brutally ex-patriating people and burning [[them]] in a [[concentration camp]] is the line that, at that [[moment]], separated [[civilization]] from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist [[gulag]] and the [[Nazi]] annihilation camp also was, at that historical moment, the difference between civilization and barbarism." =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[In Defense of Lost Causes]]'''''. New York: Verso. August 19, 2007, Hardcover, 208 pages, [[Language]] [[English]], ISBN: 1844671089. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.versobooksamazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosub07-20/booksAmazon.ca], [http:/tuvwxyz/xyzwww.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosub-titles21/zizek_defense_lost_causesAmazon.shtmlde], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small>|} __NOEDITSECTION__ __NOTOC__ [[Category:Slavoj Žižek:Books]][[Category:Books by Slavoj Žižek]]
