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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... violence is not only at work in the obvious - and exten- sively studied - cases of incitement and of the relations of social domination reproduced in our habitual speech forms : there Introduction: THE TYRANT'S BLOODY ROBE.
Slavoj Zizek. social domination reproduced in our habitual speech forms : there is a more fundamental form of violence still that pertains to language as such , to its imposition of a certain universe of meaning . Second , there is what ...
... social agents , evil individuals , disciplined repressive apparatuses , fa- natical crowds ? Doesn't it desperately try to distract our attention from the true locus of trouble , by obliterating from view other forms of violence and ...
... social transformation : " Isn't it you who did this ? Is this what you want ? " And we should re- ply , like Picasso : " No , you did this ! This is the true result of your politics ! " There is an old joke about a husband who returns ...
... social reality , but that it is " real " in the precise sense of determining the structure of the material social processes : the fate of whole strata of the population and sometimes of whole countries can be decided by the ...
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |