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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... true for violence . At the forefront of our minds , the obvious signals of violence are acts of crime and terror , civil unrest , international conflict . But we should learn to step back , to disentan- gle ourselves from the ...
... true form . It is this violence which seems to arise " out of nowhere " that , perhaps , fits what Walter Benjamin , in his " Critique of Violence , " called pure , divine violence.3 Opposing all forms of violence , from direct ...
... true result of your politics ! " There is an old joke about a husband who returns home earlier than usual from work and finds his wife in bed with another man . The surprised wife exclaims : " Why have you come back early ? " The ...
... true conservatives fighting their shadow - theatre struggles and out of touch with the new realities . The signifier of this new reality in the liberal communist Newspeak is " smart " : smart indi- cates the dynamic and nomadic as ...
... true citizens of the world . They are good people who worry . They worry about populist fundamentalists and irresponsible , greedy capitalist corporations . They see the " deeper causes " of today's problems : it is mass poverty and ...
Contents
2 | 40 |
3 | 74 |
ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON | 105 |
5 | 140 |
6 | 178 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 241 |