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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... kind of filtering mechanism blocked this news from achieving its full impact in our symbolic space . To put it cynically , Time picked the wrong victim in the struggle for hege- mony in suffering . It should have stuck to the list of ...
... kind of historical premonition , the music of Schoenberg articulated the anxieties and nightmares of Auschwitz before the event took place . In her memoirs , Anna Akhmatova describes what happened to her when , at the height of the ...
... kind of pseudo - urgency was exploited by Starbucks a couple of years ago when , at store entrances , posters greeting customers pointed out that a portion of the chain's prof- its went into health - care for the children of Guatemala ...
... kind done ? His boys and their friends , as they inherited the best of what Russia had to offer , helped fill the world with talk of literature and music and art , and they led gentle lives . What was wrong with that ? 1 While Lossky ...
... kind of redistribution of wealth to the truly needy - without falling into a fateful trap : the destructive logic of resent- ment and enforced statist redistribution of wealth which can only end in generalised misery . It also avoids ...
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |