Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek 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 Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek 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, Žižek states, takes three forms--subjective , objective , and systemic --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, Žižek 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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: July 22, 2008

ISBN: 0312427182

ISBN 13: 9780312427184

Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek 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 Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek 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, Žižek states, takes three forms--subjective , objective , and systemic --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, Žižek 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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: July 22, 2008

ISBN: 0312427182

ISBN 13: 9780312427184

More books from Slavoj Žižek

The Sublime Object of Ideology

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

3.7/5 ( ratings)

How to Read Lacan

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Living in the End Times

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

The Parallax View

Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

3.8/5 ( ratings)

On Practice and Contradiction

Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Virtue and Terror

Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?