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=====Book Description=====
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In [[order ]] to render the strange [[logic ]] of [[dreams]], [[Freud ]] quoted the old [[joke ]] [[about ]] the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms exactly what it endeavors to deny—that I returned a broken kettle to you ...
That same [[inconsistency]], [[Zizek ]] argues, characterized the justification of the attack on [[Iraq]], whereby a link between Saddam’s [[regime ]] and [[al-Qaeda ]] was transformed into the [[threat ]] posed by the regime to the region, which was then further transformed into the threat posed to everyone (but the US and [[Britain ]] especially) by weapons of mass [[destruction]]. When no significant weapons were found, we were treated to the same bizarre logic: OK, the two labs we found don’t really prove anything, but even if there are no WMD in Iraq, there are [[other ]] [[good ]] reasons to topple a tyrant like [[Saddam ]] . . .
Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle analyzes the background that such inconsistent argumentation conceals and, simultaneously, cannot [[help ]] but highlight: what were the actual [[ideological ]] and [[political ]] stakes of the attack on Iraq? In classic Zizekian style, it spares [[nothing ]] and nobody, neither pathetically impotent pacifism nor hypocritical sympathy with the [[suffering ]] of the Iraqi [[people]].
“Zizek leaves no [[social ]] or [[natural ]] phenomenon untheorized, and is the [[master ]] of the counterintuitive observation.” — ''The New Yorker''
“Zizek’s star keeps rising over [[Ljubljana ]] for good [[reason]].” — ''Tikkun''
“Zizek will entertain and offend, but never bore.” — ''The Stranger''
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle]]'''''. New York: Verso. November 28, 2005, Paperback, 192 pages, [[Language ]] [[English]], ISBN: 1844675408. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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