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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... sideways glances . There are reasons for looking at the problem of violence awry . My under- lying premise is that there is something inherently mystifying in a direct confrontation with it : the over- THE TYRANT'S BLOODY ROBE 13.
Slavoj Zizek. mystifying in a direct confrontation with it : the over- powering horror of violent acts and empathy with the victims inexorably function as a lure which prevents us from thinking . A dispassionate conceptual develop- ment ...
... direct physical violence , but also the more sub- tle forms of coercion that sustain relations of domina- tion and exploitation , including the threat of violence . The Losskys and their kind effectively " did nothing bad . " There was ...
... direct , physical violence ( mass murder , terror ) to ideological violence ( racism , incitement , sexual discrimination ) , seems to be the main preoccupation of the tolerant liberal attitude that predominates today . An SOS call ...
... - life developments and catastrophes . Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism , much more uncanny than any direct pre- capitalist socio - ideological violence : this violence is no 12 VIOLENCE.
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |