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Introduction:

The Tyrant's Bloody Robe

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Žižek, S. (2009). Introduction:. In Žižek, S. Violence. Profile Books, pp. 1-7

a term used by Slavoj Žižek to refer to clearly delimited interpersonal violence committed by one subject to another; contrast with objective violence (either symbolic or systemic)

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But we should learn to step back, to disentangle ourselves from the fascinating lure of this directly visible 'subjective' violence, violence performed by a clearly identifiable agent.

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
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6 years, 8 months ago

But we should learn to step back, to disentangle ourselves from the fascinating lure of this directly visible 'subjective' violence, violence performed by a clearly identifiable agent.

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
notable
6 years, 8 months ago

a term used by Slavoj Žižek to refer to a form of objective violence that has to do with language

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there is a 'symbolic' violence embodied in language and its forms, what Heidegger would call ‘our house of being' [...] there is a more fundamental form of violence still that pertains to language as such, to its imposition of a certain universe of meaning

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
notable
6 years, 8 months ago

there is a 'symbolic' violence embodied in language and its forms, what Heidegger would call ‘our house of being' [...] there is a more fundamental form of violence still that pertains to language as such, to its imposition of a certain universe of meaning

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
notable
6 years, 8 months ago

a term used by Slavoj Žižek to refer to a form of objective violence that underlies our economic and political systems

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there is what I call 'systemic' violence, or the often catastrophic consequences of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems.

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
notable
6 years, 8 months ago

there is what I call 'systemic' violence, or the often catastrophic consequences of the smooth functioning of our economic and political systems.

—p.1 by Slavoj Žižek
notable
6 years, 8 months ago
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[...] In a well-known passage from his Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre deployed the dilemma of a young man in France in 1942, torn between the duty to help his lone, ill mother and the duty to enter the Resistance and fight the Germans; Sartre’s point is, of course, that there is no a priori answer to this dilemma. The young man needs to make a decision grounded only in his own abyssal freedom and assume full responsibility for it. [...]

he mentions an "obscene" third way out, which is to do neither

—p.6 by Slavoj Žižek 6 years, 8 months ago

[...] In a well-known passage from his Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre deployed the dilemma of a young man in France in 1942, torn between the duty to help his lone, ill mother and the duty to enter the Resistance and fight the Germans; Sartre’s point is, of course, that there is no a priori answer to this dilemma. The young man needs to make a decision grounded only in his own abyssal freedom and assume full responsibility for it. [...]

he mentions an "obscene" third way out, which is to do neither

—p.6 by Slavoj Žižek 6 years, 8 months ago
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[...] To everyone’s surprise, Lenin says, ‘I’d like to have both!’ Why? Is there a hidden stripe of decadent jouisseur behind his austere revolutionary image? No – he explains: ‘So that I can tell my wife that I am going to my mistress, and my mistress that I have to be with my wife …’ ‘And then, what do you do?’ ‘I go to a solitary place to learn, learn and learn!’

Marx chooses a wife, Engels chooses a mistress ... playing on the fact that Lenin's advice to young people under socialism was ‘Learn, learn and learn’

—p.7 by Slavoj Žižek 6 years, 8 months ago

[...] To everyone’s surprise, Lenin says, ‘I’d like to have both!’ Why? Is there a hidden stripe of decadent jouisseur behind his austere revolutionary image? No – he explains: ‘So that I can tell my wife that I am going to my mistress, and my mistress that I have to be with my wife …’ ‘And then, what do you do?’ ‘I go to a solitary place to learn, learn and learn!’

Marx chooses a wife, Engels chooses a mistress ... playing on the fact that Lenin's advice to young people under socialism was ‘Learn, learn and learn’

—p.7 by Slavoj Žižek 6 years, 8 months ago