VIOLENCE

In this provocative and brilliantly argued work, philosopher Zizek takes readers on an intellectual and artistic tourdrawing upon P icasso's Guernica, Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan's films, Michel Houellebecq's novels, jokes, Lacanian psychology and a Ka ntian analysis of Hurricane Katrinato demonstrate how societies understand, obscure and deny the sources of violence. His is not an examination of offenses but an argument that violence can perhaps be best defined by the bystanders and not by its perpetrators or victims. Zi...[Read more]