Summary Of Violence By Slavoj Zizek

The essay entitled Violence by Slavoj Zizek was a rather interesting read. In regards to last week’s essay by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there were similarities that were mentioned. Just as MLK stood for nonviolence, Zizek encourages stepping back from violence and promoting tolerance. “A step back enables us to identify a violence that sustains our very efforts to fight violence and promote tolerance.” (The Tyrant’s Bloody Robe, 1) He believed that violence was more than just the obvious physical act, but that there were two forms of violence. His belief concluded in a fundamental form of violence such as in our language and speech called symbolic. In other words, verbal abuse is an act of violence. The other form is systemic violence which