First as tragedy, then as farce
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"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 global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.
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Difficult to follow, unnecessarily referential; am I supposed to have Wikipedia open whilst reading pop philosophy?
I like Slavoj's brand of leftism. It's bold, unapologetic and he doesn't try to intellectualise concepts away into obscure inaccessibility. I don't always agree with the implicit morality beneath some of this arguments, but that's neither here nor there. This book is just hard to read – not in a “Kant is hard to read” but in a “this Facebook comment chain keeps getting derailed”, (before they introduced nesting replies, of course). Stick to the point!
