Fanon, Žižek, and the violence of resistance / Zahi Zalloua.
| Author/creator | Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971- author. |
| Other author | Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Violent Ontologies -- Chapter 1: Being and Destitution -- Chapter 2: Disavowal In Crisis: The End of Liberalism -- Chapter 3: Decolonizing the Mind Under Occupation and Global Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Radical Others and Real Neighbors: The Politics of the Faceless -- Chapter 5: Against Exceptionalism -- Conclusion: Unleashing the Human, or Anti-Colonial Reason -- Afterword: A Small Note on a Great Book -- Bibliography -- Notes. |
| Abstract | In a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures. This inventive exploration advances an anti-racist critique, describing how ontology operates in a racial matrix to produce some human bodies that count and others (deemed not-quite- or non-human) that do not. For Fanon and Žižek, the violence of ontology must be met with another form of violence, a revolutionary violence that delegitimizes the logic of the symbolic order and troubles its collective fantasies. Whereas Fanon begins his challenge to ontology by exposing its historical linkages to Europe's destructive imperialist procedures before proceeding to "stretch" Marxism, along with psychoanalysis, to account for the crushing (neo)colonial situation, Žižek premises his work on the refusal to accept the totality of ontology. Because of these different points of intervention, Fanon and Žižek together offer a powerful and multifaceted assessment of the liberal anti-racist paradigm whose propensity for identity politics and aversion to class struggle silence the cry of the dispossessed and foreclose radical change. Avoiding contemporary separatist temptations (decoloniality and Afropessimism), and breaking with a non-violent, sentimentalist futurology that announces more of the same, Fanon and Žižek point in a different direction, one that eschews identitarian thought in favor of a collective struggle for freedom and equality. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781350513280 hardback |
| ISBN | 1350513288 |
| ISBN | 9781350513273 paperback |
| ISBN | 135051327X |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000250229 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | JC328.6 .Z35 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |