In Defense Of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek
Through readings of history, film and pop culture, the book defends the value of “lost causes” — radical emancipatory projects written off as impossible — arguing they are necessary critical tools for confronting the ideological dead ends of global capitalism and political cynicism. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, it diagnoses how liberalism neutralizes transformative change, critiques contemporary left strategies of compromise and managerialism, and urges a renewed commitment to universalist political emancipation rather than mere pragmatic reform. Provocative examples and cultural analysis are used to show how the residues of failed utopias can illuminate paths to genuine collective transformation.
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- 2008
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- British
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- English
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