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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Paperback • 2009 • English

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

By Slavoj Žižek

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In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert of the Real"--Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market capitalism at the end of 2008. Marx argued that history repeats itself-occurring first as trag...Show more

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9781844674282

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2009

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English

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

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