Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

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New York: Picador, 2008 — 270 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42718-4; ISBN-tO: 0-312-42718-2.Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and Lacan, as well as frequent references to popular culture, he examines the real causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world. Ultimately, he warns, doing nothing is often the most violent course of action we can take.ContentsIntroduction: The tyrant's bloody robeAdagio ma non troppo e moito espressivo: Sos violenceViolence: Subjective and ObjectiveThe Good Men from Porto DavosA Liberal-Communist VillageSexuality in the Atonal WorldAllegro moderato—Adagio: Fear thy neighbour as thyself!The Politics of FearThe Neighbour ThingThe Violence of LanguageAndante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed"A Strange Case of Phatic CommunicationTerrorist ResentmentThe Subject Supposed to Loot and RapePresto: Antinomies of tolerant reasonLiberalism or Fundamentalism?A Plague on Both Their Houses!The Jerusalem Chalk CircleThe Anonymous Religion of AtheismMolto adagio—Andante: Tolerance as an ideological categoryThe Culturalisation of PoliticsThe Effective UniversalityAcheronta movebo: The Infernal RegionsAllegro: Divine violenceBenjamin with HitchcockDivine Violence: What It Is Not...And Finally, What It Is!Epilogue: Adagio