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[[Image:Lostcauses2In.Defense.Of.Lost.Causes.jpg|250px|right]]'''A witty, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for [[universal ]] values'''

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 Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age?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."

|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.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>