Living in the End Times
Living in the End Times is a book by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek published by Verso Books in 2010.
Summary
Žižek deploys the structure of Kübler Ross’s five stages of grief in order to frame what he sees as the emergent political crises of the 21st century. Thus the five chapters of the book correspond to denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.Concluding with a compelling argument for the return of a Marxian critique of political economy, Žižek also divines the wellsprings of a potentially communist culture—from literary utopias like Kafka's community of mice to the collective of freak outcasts in the television series Heroes.