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=====Book Description=====
[[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 ]] (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, 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.
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=====Product Details=====
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|width="100%"| [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Violence: Big Ideas / Small Books]]'''''. New York: Verso. July 22, 2008, 272 pages, Language [[English]], ISBN: 0312427182. <small><small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312427182/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312427182/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312427182/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312427182/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312427182/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small></small>
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