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Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books - BIG IDEAS/ / small books 1st edition

Slavoj Zizek

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Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books - BIG IDEAS/ / small books 1st edition

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj ?i?ek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.

Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj ?i?ek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, ?i?ek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.

Violence, ?i?ek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions.

Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think?

Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, ?i?ek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.


272 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 22, 2008
ISBN13 9780312427184
Publishers Picador
Pages 272
Dimensions 4 × 186 × 17 mm   ·   208 g
Language English  

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