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In Defense of Lost Causes keyword-black and Australia to witness theIn this combative major work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj iek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heideggers seduction by fascism and Foucaults flirtation with the Iranian Revolution, he suggests that these were the right steps in the wrong direction. On the revolutionary terror of Robespierre, Mao and the Bolsheviks, iek argues that while these struggles ended in historic failure and horror, there