FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE
Book ID/图书代码： 13850009B32650
English Summary/英文概要： From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown—but underlying both is the irrationality of global capitalism. In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis—following on from his bestselling Welcome to the Desert of the Real—Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the “end of history,” declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market capitalism at the end of 2008. Marx argued that history repeats itself—occuring first as tragedy, the second time as farce—and Zizek, following Herbert Marcuse, notes here that the repetition as farce can be even more terrifying than the original tragedy. The financial meltdown signals that the fantasy of globalization is over and as millions are put out of work it has become impossible to ignore the irrationality of global capitalism. Just a few months before the crash, the world’s priorities seemed to be global warming, AIDS, and access to medicine, food and water—tasks labelled as urgent, but with any real action repeatedly postponed. Now, after the financial implosion, the urgent need to act seems to have become unconditional—with the result that undreamt of quantities of cash were immediately found and then poured into the financial sector without any regard for the old priorities. Do we need further proof, Zizek asks, that Capital is the Real of our lives: the Real whose demands are more absolute than even the most pressing problems of our natural and social world? .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 從911到金融危機，兩者都是全球資本主義的不合理。繼《歡迎光臨真實荒漠》後，紀傑克提出，自從1990年法蘭西斯 福山所提出的自由主義觀點”歷史的終結 end of history”到現在為止，這個論點已經被推翻兩次了。第一次是911發生後，自由民主政治的崩解、第二次是2008年末資本主義興盛的全球市場的崩落。
馬克斯曾說過歷史會不斷重演: 第一次是悲劇，第二次是鬧劇。因此，紀傑克繼續延伸馬庫色的論點，並不斷強調，悲劇的重演所帶來的後果，事實上，是有可能比第一次的後果還要更嚴重。
在金融危機前幾個月前，世界所關懷的焦點都是全球暖化、愛滋病、醫療資源、水及食物的分配，但卻未有實際的行動。而金融危機問題爆發後，所有經濟救援立刻毫無條件的大筆投入救災，完全忽視之前的問題。
金融危機宣告了全球化的幻想已經結束，而數以百萬的金錢投入，讓我們更無法忽視資本主義全球化的不合理性。
紀傑克在此書中問: 資本主義早就已經是我們真實世界的所有一切，難道我們還需要更多的事件來證明這一點嗎? 又，難道這個真實世界所要求的，真的比我們自然及社會問題，還來的重要嗎?(SK)
Awards/获奖情况：名聲響遍全球的當代思想大師
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The most dangerous philosopher in the West—New Republic
One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary thinkers of the left. ---(Times Literary Supplement ) 泰晤士報文學增刊
Zizek is an influential thinker, and this short book offers an excellent entry into his thought. ---(David Gordon - Library Journal ) 圖書館學刊
The Elvis of cultural theory. ---(The Chronicle of Higher Education )
Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation. ---(The New Yorker ) 紐約時報
A great provocateur and an immensely suggestive and even dashing writer... Zizek writes with passion and an aphoristic energy that is spellbinding. ---(Richard Rayner - Los Angeles Times ) 洛杉磯時報
Starred Review. The charismatic and contentious Zizek (The Sublime Object of Ideology) turns his versatile intelligence and acute ear for irony to a critique of contemporary capitalism. Given the recent financial crisis, Zizek argues that it is now impossible to ignore the blatant irrationality of global capitalism. He sifts through recent history to reveal how capitalist ideology functions to defend the system against any serious critique, despite its manifest flaws. He draws a sharp line between liberalism and the radical left, showing how the socialization of the banks—and socialism itself—is actually aligned with the preservation of capitalism rather than inimical to it, and derides socially responsible ecocapitalism as another avatar of a bankrupt system. Zizek concludes with a new articulation of The Communist Hypothesis, setting socialism and communism as antagonists and presenting a utopian vision that relies on breaking out of the structures and strictures of statism and the markets. An earnest and timely challenge, Zizek’s critique of capitalism and repositioning of communist thought is both insightful and well-reasoned, and guaranteed to rile readers across the political and theoretical spectrum.---From Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： 斯拉維‧紀傑克，1949年出生於前南斯拉夫，共黨解體後成為斯洛維尼亞(Slovenia)人，斯洛維尼亞首都盧布里亞那(Ljubljana)大學哲學博士，現任職於該大學社會科學研究所。身為後拉岡學派的大將，紀傑克擅專以深入淺出而幽默的筆觸，運用諷喻、戲謔的字眼，讓冰冷、僵硬的學術與通俗易懂的流行文化結合。
紀傑克渾身充滿魅力，一開講就滔滔不絕令人目瞪口呆，是繼傅柯(Foucault)、羅蘭.巴特、德希達(Derrida)、德勒茲(Deleuze)、克莉斯蒂娃旋風之後，名聲響遍全球的當代思想大師，他的主要創見之一，是應用拉岡精神分析的理論基礎，透過一般大眾所關心的流行電影、文學及日常生活、歷史政治事件等，關注族群、身分、認同、愛與仇恨、意識形態議題。
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