In defense of lost causes
Book - 2009
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theoriest Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several 'lost causes'.
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- Published
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London ; New York :
Verso
2009.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Paperback ed
- Item Description
- Originally published: 2008.
- Physical Description
- 530 p. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-518) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781786630797
9781844674299
- Introduction. Causa locuta, Roma finita
- Pt. 1, The state of things. Happiness and torture in the atonal world ; The family myth of ideology ; Radical intellectuals, or, Why Heidegger took the right step (albeit in the wrong direction) in 1933
- Pt. 2, Lessons from the past. Revolutionary terror from Robespierre to Mao ; Stalinism revisited, or, How Stalin saved the humanity of man ; Why populism is (sometimes) good enough in practice, but not in theory
- Pt. 3, What is to be done? The crisis of determinate negation
- Alain Badiou, or, The violence of subtraction
- Unbehagen in der Natur.