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  title info:
    title: Heaven in disorder
  name:
    name part: Žižek, Slavoj
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 221 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage, outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent." The contemporary relevance of Mao's observation depends on whether today's catastrophes can be a catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in heaven itself. Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Žižek's new book treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and Chile, France and Kurdistan and beyond. Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Žižek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation and, above all, an urgent, "wartime" communism.
  note: Slavoj Žižek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Communism
  classification: B4870.Z593 H43 2021
  classification: 199/.4973
  identifier: 9781682192818
  identifier: 1682192814
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211028
    record change date: 20220512174608.0
    record identifier: in00004566570