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More copies of this ISBN:Welcome to the Desert of the Realby Slavoj Zizek
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In the months after September 11, titles like 'The End of the Age of Irony' abound in our media. Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides.<P>Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyses the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events. Synopsis:This volume proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It explores the irony that the tragedy of September 11 has been used to legitimize torture. Finally, it analyzes the predominantly Leftist response to the events. About the AuthorSlavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana. His books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Plague of Fantasies and The Ticklish Subject. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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