02409nam a2200433Ii 4500 9781787146686 UtOrBLW 20251029120751.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 170915s2017 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787146686 (e-book) 9781787430044 ePUB UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW H61 .R43 2017 JHBA bicssc SOC026040 bisacsh 316.7 Redhead, Steve, 1952- editor. 61000 Theoretical times / Steve Redhead. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xxxvi, 276 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. In Theoretical Times, Steve Redhead describes the post-crash economic, environmental, political and cultural condition we live in today. As the rise of the international right - Donald Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen - swarms the globe, a new global battle within the right is developing: the globalists and neo-liberals versus the economic nationalists and protectionists. What then are the prospects for a resurrected theoretical politics of the left? Theoretical Times considers the work of theorists such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, in this innovative reinvention of theory and the politics of theory. After the global financial crash the world is being hollowed out and we find ourselves in what Žižek calls a desperate state of hopelessness, the new dark ages. Accelerated culture sees us digitally entertaining ourselves to death but leaves us exhausted and frightened waiting for World War Three. Theoretical Times offers new theoretical resources as a way out of the quicksand. Print version record Social Science Sociology / Social Theory. bisacsh 57192 Social theory. bicssc 58050 Social sciences Philosophy. 60803 Ideology. 61001 9781787146693 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787146686 51938 51938