{"product_id":"first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce-slavoj-zizek","title":"First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Slavoj Žižek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBillions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Žižek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9\/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"paperback","offer_id":44577873920042,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"hardcover","offer_id":44577873952810,"sku":null,"price":430.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":44577873985578,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/5126\/8394\/files\/61lmiyFCMbL._SL1200.jpg?v=1784059163","url":"https:\/\/bookycafebd.shop\/products\/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce-slavoj-zizek","provider":"BookYcafe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}