{"product_id":"living-in-the-end-times-isbn-9781844677023","title":"Living in the End Times","description":"There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a major new analysis of our global situation, Žižek 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor this edition, Žižek has written a long afterword that leaves almost no subject untouched, from WikiLeaks to the nature of the Chinese Communist Party.“The most dangerous philosopher in the West.”—Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fierce brilliance ... scintillating.”—Steven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the 80s: the thinker of choice for Europe’s young intellectual vanguard.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Such passion, in a man whose work forms a shaky, cartoon rope-bridge between the minutiae of popular culture and the big abstract problems of existence, is invigorating, entertaining and expanding enquiring minds around the world.”—Helen Brown, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Žižek weaves together psychoanalytic and historical materialist theories with great panache.”—Ashley Dawson, \u003ci\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Lost Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304853262565,"sku":"NP9781844677023","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677023.jpg?v=1767731594","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/living-in-the-end-times-isbn-9781844677023","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}