Trouble in Paradise

Resumen del libro

In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj i ek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.

There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're in? It is as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of capitalism has become inexorable, the only game in town.

Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak future promised by this system, Slavoj i ek explores the possibilities - and the traps - of new emancipatory struggles.

Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse as Gangnam Style to Marx, The Dark Knight to Thatcher, Trouble in Paradise is an incisive dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new order to come.

Biografía del autor

Slavoj x{0026} x0017D;ix{0026} x0017E;ek (Liubliana, 1949), filósofo, sociólogo, psicoanalista y crítico cultural, es uno de los pensadores más innovadores y carismáticos de nuestro tiempo. Es investigador en el Instituto de Sociología de la Universidad de Liubliana (Eslovenia) y profesor en diversas universidades de Estados Unidos y Europa. Ha publicado decenas de libros, traducidos a varias lenguas, en los que integra el pensamiento de Jacques Lacan con el marxismo y vincula sus reflexiones teóricas con ejemplos de la cultura popular.