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{{BBSZ}}<BR>{| style=====Book Description====="width[[Image:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2In.Defense.Of.Lost.Causes.0em; padding-left:10px;"jpg|width="100%"250px| [[Zizek, Slavojright]]. '''''A witty, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for [[In Defense of Lost Causesuniversal]]values'''''. New York: Verso, 2007.|}
Is [[Image:Lostcauses2global]] 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 Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age?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]].jpg|300px|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'Book Description:'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."
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