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Welcome to the desert of the real : Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Paperback • 2002 • English

Welcome to the desert of the real : Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

By Slavoj Zizek

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Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek 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...Show more

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2002

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Welcome to the desert of the real : Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

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