Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

In Trouble in Paradise Slavoj Žižek one of our most famous most combative philosophers explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis were in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable the only game in town.Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives and the bleak future promised by this system Slavoj Žižek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles. Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx The Dark Knight to Thatcher Trouble in Paradise is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit and the new order to come.The most dangerous philosopher in the West - Adam Kirsch New Republic The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis indeed of cultural theory in general to have emerged in many decades - Terry Eagleton Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized and is master of the counterintuitive observation - New Yorker About the Author Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher Lacanian psychoanalyst and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Eminent Scholar at Kyung-Hee University Seoul. His previous books includeLiving in the End Times First as Tragedy Then as Farce Trouble in Paradise and most recentlyThe Courage of Hopelessness.