Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Zizek, Slavoj

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781781680193)

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Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Zizek, Slavoj

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

$24.95
Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates by Zizek, Slavoj

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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 our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

Author: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN-10: 1781680191
ISBN-13: 9781781680193
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.10w x 0.56d
By Slavoj Zizek
By Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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