TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zizek,Slavoj
TI  - First as tragedy, then as farce / 
SN  - 9781844674282 (pbk.)
U1  - 337.01   22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Verso, 
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Influence
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references;  Capitalist socialism? -- Crisis as shock therapy -- The structure of enemy propaganda -- Human, all too human-- -- The "new spirit" of capi talism -- Between the two fetishisms -- Communism, again! -- The new en closure of the commons -- Socialism or communism? -- The "public use of reason" -- --in Haiti -- The capitalist exception -- Capitalism with A sian values-- in Europe -- From profit to rent -- "We are the ones we h ave been waiting for."
N2  -  "In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral f ailures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a politic al doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover
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