Research Catalog

Title

Trouble in paradise : from the end of history to the end of capitalism / Slavoj Žižek.

Author

Žižek, Slavoj

Publication

London : Allen Lane, 2014.

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Description

233 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, this book explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.

Alternative Title

From the end of history to the end of capitalism

Subject

• Žižek, Slavoj 1949-
• 2000-2099
• 2000-talet
• Capitalism > History > 21st century
• Communism

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Divided we stand! -- 1. Diagnosis: hors d'oeuvre? (Crisis, what crisis? ; Breaking eggs without getting an omelette ; Now we know who John Galt is! ; Being-towards-debt as a way of life) -- 2. Cardiognosis: du jambon cru? (Freedom in the clouds ; Vampires versus zombies ; The cynics naivety ; The obscene underside of the Law ; Superego, or, the prohibited profession)
• 3. Prognosis: un faux-fuilet, peut-être? (Deaths on the Nile ; Demands ... and more ; The fascination of suffering ; Rage and depression in the global village ; Mahmilapinatapei ; Lenin in Ukraine) -- 4. Epignosis: j'ai hâte de vous servir! (Back to the economy of gift ; The wound of Eurocentrism ; A, not G flat ; Towards a new master ; 'The right of distress') -- Appendix: Nota bene! (Batman, Joker, Bane ; Traces of utopia ; Violence, which violence? ; Weathermen's family values ; Out of malttukbagki)

ISBN

• 9780241004968 (hbk.)
• 0241004969 (hbk.)
• 9780141979557 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

890160795

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library