Tragic at the beginning, comic at the end

Author: Slavoj Žižek Number of pages: 213 pages Publisher: Markaz Al-Mahrousa Žižek presents an engaging book, as if a window into the economic, political, and social world, through which we view the two events that mark the beginning and end of the first decade of the twenty-first century: the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the global financial crisis of 2008. It also reveals two faces of history: a tragic face and a comic one; for with the events of September 11, liberalism died twice: once as a political principle, and the other as an economic theory. The book is a panorama of the world with its various events and revolutions that changed the course of history; it engages with the heart of revolutionary liberation events and understands their true meaning. No revolution should be measured by the moments of brilliance and grandeur it offers during its astonishing period, but rather by the changes this great event leaves on daily life and its impact on it, meaning it is measured by the new era after rebellion and revolution.