{"product_id":"9781844674893","title":"First As Tragedy, Then As Farce","description":"Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Žižek 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 right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9\/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce\u003c\/i\u003e is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137041318128,"sku":"9781844674893","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844674893_p0.jpg?v=1763742596","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844674893","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}