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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... lives . What was wrong with that ? 1 While Lossky was without doubt a sincere and be- nevolent person , really caring for the poor and trying to civilise Russian life , such an attitude betrays a breath- taking insensitivity to the ...
... really to change the world , really to revolu- tionise our lives . Hadn't Marx already asked : what are political upheavals in comparison with the invention of the steam engine ? Didn't this do more than all SOS VIOLENCE | 19.
... lives ? And would Marx not have said today : what are all the protests against global capitalism worth in comparison with the invention of the internet ? Above all , liberal communists are true citizens of the world . They are good ...
... live by the bargain they made with the creatures : they don't enter the forest , the creatures don't enter the town . Conflict arises when the young Lucius Hunt wishes to leave the village in search of new medicines and the pact is ...
... lives : the village idiot's death can be presented to the uniniti- ated as proof that monsters exist , thereby confirming the founding myth of the community . Sacrificial logic is reasserted as the condition of community , as its se ...
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |