In Defense of Lost Causes - Hardcover

"The giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus." Village Voice "Zizek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counterintuitive observation." New Yorker"

Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theorist Slavoj Zizek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several "lost causes." From a provocative redemption of Heidegger's engagement with the Third Reich as "a right step in the wrong direction," to reasserting class struggle as the underlying reality of global capitalism, to a defense of the emancipatory legacy of Christianity against New Age spiritualism, Zizek confronts the failures of contemporary theory and proposes unexpected resolutions.