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Violence (2008)

by Slavoj Žižek(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312427182 (ISBN13: 9780312427184)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Picador

review 1: Zizek is really all over the place in this book. I don't have a philosophical background so some ideas may have gone over my head, but many pop culture references or analyses he makes feel very strange. His bits on Israel/Palestine, New Orleans, and Tolerance/Liberalism were interesting, however. This book felt like randomly finding candy in a pile of dirt. Maybe this is just how Zizek writes, maybe he's gotten older, or maybe he's just churning out books. Maybe i'll revisit this one day2.5/5
review 2: I'm not a well-read philosopher, so a lot of the references in this book went right over my head. But I found the language not overly academic, so it was readable. it was a very thought-provoking book on the topic of violence, exploring types of violence and the ... moremeaning of violence. Zizek argues that systemic violence is rarely seen as violence, while subjective, or individual, violence (or resistance to systemic violence) is nearly always seen as violence. less

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