{"product_id":"trouble-in-paradise-slavoj-zizek","title":"Trouble In Paradise - Slavoj Zizek","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSlavoj Zizek, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSetting 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 Zizek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto Thatcher,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The most dangerous philosopher in the West' - Adam Kirsch,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades' - Terry Eagleton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlavoj Zizek 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLess Than Nothing, Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand, most recently,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Year of Dreaming Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e%%%In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSlavoj Zizek, 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.\u003cbr\u003eThere 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.\u003cbr\u003eSetting 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 Zizek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto Thatcher,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come.\u003cbr\u003e'The most dangerous philosopher in the West' - Adam Kirsch,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades' - Terry Eagleton\u003cbr\u003e'Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. 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