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

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Despite living in a world of almost constant crisis, we still seem to accept that capitalism - dangerously enticing, promiscuous, unstable - is what we're stuck with. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek ranges over everything from music videos and Batman to Marx and Lacan to analyze our predicament, and explore the possibilities of radical change.

'A provocative diagnosis of the malaise of liberal capitalism . . . European philosophy's punk icon, his prose is irrepressible, sometimes bonkers but never boring.' Josh Cohen, New Statesman

'Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Zizek.' John Gray, New York Review of Books

'To witness Zizek in full flight is a wonderful and at times alarming experience, part philosophical tightrope walk, part performance-art marathon, part intellectual roller-coaster ride.' Sean O'Hagan, Observer