{"product_id":"fanon-zizek-and-the-violence-zahi-zalloua-9781350513280","title":"Fanon, Zizek, and the Violence of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Zizek, 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, Zizek premises his work on the refusal to accept the totality of ontology. Because of these different points of intervention, Fanon and Zizek 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 Zizek point in a different direction, one that eschews identitarian thought in favor of a collective struggle for freedom and equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zahi Zalloua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350513288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350513280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Zahi Zalloua","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001388024063,"sku":"9781350513280","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a28ba70d-c86c-4cea-8ab9-f71a80d6c5e2.jpg?v=1751600924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fanon-zizek-and-the-violence-zahi-zalloua-9781350513280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}