LIVING IN THE END TIMES - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/Later Printing: Signed And Inscribed by Slavoj Zizek - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Zizek, Slavoj

ISBN 10: 184467598X / ISBN 13: 9781844675982

Edité par Cambridge, England: Verso, 2010, 2010

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4th Printing. Signed. 416 pages. Published in 2010. The author's account on subject. One of Slavoj Zizek's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition in its later printing. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run by a small independent press, Verso Books, as a hardcover original only that went into multiple subsequent printings. There is NO American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Slavoj Zizek's "Living In The End Times". The philosopher as prolific and indefatigable agent provocateur. Bristling, as usual, with brilliant ideas and counter-intuitive observations. You do NOT have to agree with any of Zizek's conclusions at all. That is not the important role he has uniquely played in contemporary discourse. Which is to open up and stimulate the public sphere with provocative insights that undermine the status quo, that is to say, cliche and received wisdom. Served up with fervor in accessible prose. "Shows the cultural and political forms of the stages of ideological avoidance and political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism" (Publisher's blurb). "Everything one expects from him, a heady mix of psychoanalysis, politics, theology, philosophy, and cultural studies. Will leave the reader exhilarated" (Marcus Pound). Zizek is a radical thinker steeped in the great Continental tradition (of Freud and Lacan), who is formally trained in philosophy and psychoanalysis, but is neither an academic philosopher nor a practicing psychoanalyst. "I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these pseudo-left, beautiful-soul academics is that they are fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them" (Slavoj Zizek). An absolute "must-have" title for Slavoj Zizek collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Elias, Slavoj Zizek". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, obtained the signature in person. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/Later Printing available online and despite its imperfection (one closed tear on the DJ, but it's there) is still fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Slavoj Zizek rarely does public signings, making every signed copy of his books rare and collectible. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant philosopher/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 184467598X.

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• Titre: LIVING IN THE END TIMES - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/Later Printing: Signed And Inscribed by Slavoj Zizek - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Éditeur: Cambridge, England: Verso, 2010
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 184467598X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781844675982
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Slavok Zizek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal.
After passing through this zero-point, we can begin to perceive the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. Or, as Mao Zedong put it, "There is great disorder under heaven, the situation is excellent." Slavoj Zizek shows the cultural and political forms of these stages of ideological avoidance and political protest, from New Age obscurantism to violent religious fundamentalism. Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy, Zizek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture-from literary utopias like Kafka's community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the TV series Heroes.

À propos de l?auteur

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.