@book {80904, title = {Violence: Six Sideways Reflections}, year = {2008}, month = {July 2008}, publisher = {Profile Book Limited }, organization = {Profile Book Limited }, abstract = {

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.

Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists.

Violence, Zizek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions.

Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think?

Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, Zizek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.

}, isbn = {9781846680274}, author = {Slavoj {\v Z}i{\v z}ek} } @book {80503, title = {Very little{\textendash} almost nothing : death, philosophy, literature}, year = {2004}, pages = {276}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, abstract = {

2nd ed. Chapter Preamble: Travels in Nihilon {\textendash} chapter Lecture 1: Il y a {\textendash} chapter Lecture 2: Unworking romanticism {\textendash} chapter Lecture 3: Know happiness {\textendash} on Beckett {\textendash} chapter Lecture 4: The philosophical significance of a poem {\textendash} on Wallace Stevens {\textendash} chapter Notes 270 / Acknowledgements {\textendash} chapter Acknowledgements {\textendash} .

}, isbn = {0203462939}, author = {Simon Critchley} } @book {82476, title = {Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {

{\textquoteright}Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences - the primary focus of most other contemporary theorists. This volume brings together a dozen essays published between 1957 and 1977, and includes two new ones as well. In the first, Foot argues explicitly for an ethic of virtue, and in the next five discusses abortion, euthanasia, free
will/determination, and the ethics of Hume and Nietzsche. The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment with emotivism and prescriptivism and their account of moral arguments. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue.... Foot{\textquoteright}s style is straightforward and
readable, her arguments subtle, ingenious, and some of them important.{\textquoteright} Choice

{\textquoteright}All in all, this collection of essays provides much to whet the moral philosopher{\textquoteright}s appetite.{\textquoteright} International Philosophical Quarterly

}, isbn = {9780199252862}, author = {Foot, Philippa R.} } @book {82261, title = {The Vocation of Man}, year = {1987}, publisher = {Hackett Publishing Co, Inc}, organization = {Hackett Publishing Co, Inc}, isbn = {9780872200371}, author = {Johann Gottlieb Fichte} }