Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, 2007).Fabio Vighi is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner), Sexual Difference in European Cinema (2008), and On Žižek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (2010).

Feldner's and Vighi's new book is what we have all been waiting for — in its diagnosis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis it combines in a masterful way concrete economic analysis with a philosophical and cultural interpretation of today's world. Only such an approach which deals with Alan Greenspan AND Giorgio Agamben will do the work. This is why Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism is a book for everyone who wants to understand the predicament we are all in — in short, for everyone who still cultivates a desire to think.

• IntroductionChapter 1Collapse without salvation?Chapter 2Homo economicus: Greenspan’s misanthropy in contextChapter 3Ontology of crisisChapter 4The capitalist discourse: digging its own graveChapter 5Agamben’s messianism, or: trouble with the dialecticEpilogue: nothing to be liberatedReferencesIndex

Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, 2007).Fabio Vighi is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner), Sexual Difference in European Cinema (2008), and On Žižek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (2010).

Feldner's and Vighi's new book is what we have all been waiting for — in its diagnosis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis it combines in a masterful way concrete economic analysis with a philosophical and cultural interpretation of today's world. Only such an approach which deals with Alan Greenspan AND Giorgio Agamben will do the work. This is why Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism is a book for everyone who wants to understand the predicament we are all in — in short, for everyone who still cultivates a desire to think.

• IntroductionChapter 1Collapse without salvation?Chapter 2Homo economicus: Greenspan’s misanthropy in contextChapter 3Ontology of crisisChapter 4The capitalist discourse: digging its own graveChapter 5Agamben’s messianism, or: trouble with the dialecticEpilogue: nothing to be liberatedReferencesIndex

Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, 2007).Fabio Vighi is Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Žižek: Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner), Sexual Difference in European Cinema (2008), and On Žižek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (2010).

Feldner's and Vighi's new book is what we have all been waiting for — in its diagnosis of the ongoing economic and financial crisis it combines in a masterful way concrete economic analysis with a philosophical and cultural interpretation of today's world. Only such an approach which deals with Alan Greenspan AND Giorgio Agamben will do the work. This is why Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism is a book for everyone who wants to understand the predicament we are all in — in short, for everyone who still cultivates a desire to think.

• IntroductionChapter 1Collapse without salvation?Chapter 2Homo economicus: Greenspan’s misanthropy in contextChapter 3Ontology of crisisChapter 4The capitalist discourse: digging its own graveChapter 5Agamben’s messianism, or: trouble with the dialecticEpilogue: nothing to be liberatedReferencesIndex