ViolencePhilosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. |
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... capitalism and , indeed , civilization cause more violence than it prevents ? Is there violence in the simple idea of " the neighbor " ? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate , to think ...
... capitalism . Marx described the mad , self - enhancing circulation of capital , whose solipsistic path of ... capitalism , much more uncanny than any direct pre- capitalist socio - ideological violence : this violence is no 12 VIOLENCE.
Slavoj Zizek. capitalist socio - ideological violence : this violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals ... capitalism ( the futures trade and similar abstract financial specula- tions ) not point towards the reign of the ...
... capitalism , which involve the " automatic " cre- ation of excluded and dispensable individuals from the homeless to ... capitalist globalisation , from the tragedy of Mexico in the sixteenth century through to the Bel- gian Congo ...
... capitalist globalisation is not our fate , that - as the official slogan puts it- " another world is pos- sible . " Over these last years , however , the Porto Alegre reunions seem somehow to have lost their impetus . We hear less and ...
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |