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First as tragedy, then as farce

by Slavoj Žižek

2009 157 pages eng ★ 3.3 (3 ratings)

"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] 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 righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the globa…

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