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Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.” The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Marxism: Add a description of this character.
- Lacan
- Josephine
- Julie
- Malabou
- Madeleine
- Satie
- Neville
- Milner
- Fredric Jameson
- Kafka
- Lenin
- Ethan
- Shifu
- Wade
- Sloterdijk
- Chakrabarty
- Fritzl
- Freud
- Valjean
- Wolmar
- Judy
- Belyaev
- Alan
- Evans
- Ahmed
- Strauss
- Jelinek
- Deleuze
- Gandhi
- Kant
- Heidegger
- Claire
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Hitler
- Rousseau
- Anna
- Platonov
- Saint-preux
- Wagner
- Wilson
- Shaul
- Gehry
- Altman
- Gerry
- Aristide
- Jerry
- Dysart
Setting & Locations edit
- Europe
- China
- New York
- Russia
- State Of Israel
- France
- London
- United States
- Badiou
- Iraq
- Hollywood
- Haiti
- Heaven
- India
- Paris
- West Bank
- Congo
- Germany
- Japan
- Rome
- Rammstein
- Stalinism
- Brazil
- Jerusalem
- Gaza
- Uk
- Italy
- America
- Lebanon
- Cambridge
- Islam
- Tai Lung
- Karatani
- Yuma
- Hegelese
- Vermont
- South Korea
- Zaera Polo
- Soviet Union
- Moscow
- Ariia
- Austria
- Middle East
- Georgia
- Tibet
- Brussels
First Sentence edit
What is ideology? In January 2010 Jean-Francois Cope, the parliamentary leader of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, the ruling French party, proposed the draft of a law which bans the full-body veil from French streets and all other public places.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
1. Denial: The Liberal Utopia
Interlude 1. Hollywood Today: Report from an Ideological Battlefield
2. Anger: The Actuality of the Theologico-Political
Interlude 2. Reverberations of the Crisis in a Multi-Centric World
3. Bargaining: The Return of the Critique of Political Economy
Interlude 3. The Architectural Parallax
4. Depression: The Neuronal Trauma, or, the Rise of the Proletarian Cogito
Interlude 4. Apocalypse at the Gates
5. Acceptance: The Cause Regained
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Slavoj Žižek (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Country: London
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84467-598-2
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Verso
Country: London
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84467-598-2
Page Count: 416
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 320
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