Redhead, Steve 1952- creator editor. text bibliography enk 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxxvi, 276 pages) 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. Steve Redhead. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Social Science Sociology / Social Theory Social theory Social sciences Philosophy Ideology H61 .R43 2017 316.7 9781787146686 9781787430044 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787146686 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787146686 UtOrBLW 170915 20251029120751.0 9781787146686 eng