2009 - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.pdf - Slavoj Zizek - piwowar3

FIRST AS TAGEDY,

THEN AS FARCE

SAVOJ ZrZEK

VERSO

London • New York

First published by Verso 2009

he moral rights of the author have been asserted

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Contents

Introduction: he Lessons o f the First Decade

1 It's Ideology, Stupid!

Capitaist Sociaism?-Crisis As Shock heray-he Strucure

of Enemy Propaganda-Human, All Too Human ...-he

"New Sprit" of Capitism-Be w e e n the Two Feishisms

Comnism, gain!

2 he C ommu n ist Hpothesis

The New Enclosure of the Commons-Socia l ism or

Communism?-he "Public Use ofReason"- ...in Haiti

The Capitalist Exception'Capitalism with Asian Values

in Europe- F ro m Proit to Rent-"We Are the Ones We

Have Been Waiting For"

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2009 - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.pdf