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=====Book Description=====[[Image:Lostcauses2In.Defense.Of.Lost.Causes.jpg|200px250px|right]]'''A witty, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for [[universal]] values'''
==Book Description=='''A wittyIs [[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 Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age?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]], adrenalin-fuelled renowned theorist Slavoj [[Zizek]] takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for universal values'''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 global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier agethe minimal [[difference]] in [[politics]] not the one between [[Nazism]] and [[Stalinism]]?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 postmodern world, ideologies serious legitimate charges that you express [[about]] a [[regime]] that murdered millions of all kinds have been cast in doubt[[Jews]]... In this combative new work' I can merely add that if instead of 'Jews' you had written 'East Germans, renowned theorist Slavoj Zizek takes on ' then the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto same holds [[true]] for several “lost causes.” From a provocative redemption one of Heidegger’s engagement the allies, with the Third Reich as “a right step 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 wrong direction” to reasserting class struggle as thin difference between brutally ex-patriating people and burning [[them]] in a [[concentration camp]] is the underlying reality of global capitalismline that, at that [[moment]], to separated [[civilization]] from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a defense of step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist [[gulag]] and the emancipatory legacy of Christianity against New Age spiritualism[[Nazi]] annihilation camp also was, at that historical moment, Zizek confronts the failures of contemporary theory difference between civilization and proposes unexpected resolutionsbarbarism."
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==Product Details==
* [[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.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671089/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [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>
 
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