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Fanon, Žižek, and the Violence of Resistance

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Fanon, Žižek, and the Violence of Resistance

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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.

Table of 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

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jul 24 2025
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781350513273
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Zahi Zalloua

Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philoso…

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