Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek 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.

Probing beneath the level of TV punditry, Zizek offers a highly original and readable account that serves as a fascinating and insightful comprehension of the events of September 11

About the Author
Slavoj Zizek 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 sen-ior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Less Than Nothing, six volumes of the Essential Zizek, and many more.

Reviews
Fierce brilliance ... scintillating. -- Steven Poole * Guardian (in praise of Living in the End Times) *
Never ceases to dazzle. -- Brian Dillon * Daily Telegraph (in praise of Living in the End Times) *
Zizek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the '80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard. * Observer (in praise of Living in the End Times) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781781680193
Author Slavoj Zizek
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 232g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 18mm