Violence

Resumen del libro

The premise of Zizek's theory is that the subjective violence we see violence with a clear identifiable agent is only the tip of an iceberg made up of systemic' violence, which is essentially the catastrophic consequence of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems.

With the help of Marx, Engels, Sartre, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Brecht and many more, Zizek examines the hidden causes of violence, delving into the supposed divine violence' which propels suicide bombers and the unseen systemic' violence which lies behind outbursts, from Parisian suburbia to New Orleans. For Zizek, the controversial truth is that sometimes doing nothing is the most violent thing you can do. He calls for a forceful confrontation with the vacuity of today's democracies using an unconventional plethora of references: Hitchcock, Orwell, Fukuyama, Freud and more.

Biografía del autor

Slavoj x{0026} x0017D;ix{0026} x0017E;ek (Liubliana, Eslovenia, 1949) es doctor en Filosofía e investigador del Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Liubliana, y profesor visitante en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York. Ha sido invitado a impartir clases en universidades como Université Paris-VIII, SUNY Buffalo, University of Minnesota, Tulane University, New Orleans, Columbia University, New York y Princeton University.