Trouble In Paradise - Softcover

Izek, Slavoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141979542 ISBN 13: 9780141979540

Publisher: Penguin UK, 2015

Synopsis

In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town. Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj Žižek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, The Dark Knight to Thatcher, Trouble in Paradise is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come. 'The most dangerous philosopher in the West' - Adam Kirsch, New Republic 'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades' - Terry Eagleton 'Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' - New Yorker

About this title

About the Author:

Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, including Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Trouble in Paradise and, most recently, Against the Double Blackmail.

Review:

The most dangerous philosopher in the West -- Adam Kirsch * New Republic * Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative * Guardian * The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades -- Terry Eagleton Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker * Never ceases to dazzle -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph * Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard * Observer *

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141979542
• ISBN 13: 9780141979540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196