Zizek Slavoj
Zizek Slavoj - Iraq The Borrowed Kettle - Paperback
Zizek Slavoj - Iraq The Borrowed Kettle - Paperback
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Description: In order to render the strange logic of dreams Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you (2) I returned it to you unbroken (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments of course confirms exactly what it attempts to deny that I returned a broken kettle to you. That same inconsistency i ek argues characterized the justification of the attack on Iraq: A link between Saddam's regime and al - Qaeda was transformed into the threat posed by the regime to the region which was then further transformed into the threat posed to everyone (but the US and Britain especially) by weapons of mass destruction. When no significant weapons were found we were treated to the same bizarre logic: OK the two labs we found don t really prove anything but even if there are no WMD in Iraq there are other good reasons to topple a tyrant like Saddam . Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle which can be considered as a sequel to i ek's acclaimed post - 9/11 Welcome to the Desert of the Real analyzes the background that such inconsistent argumentation conceals and simultaneously cannot help but highlight: what were the actual ideological and political stakes of the attack on Iraq? In classic i ekian style it spares nothing and nobody neither pathetically impotent pacifism nor hypocritical sympathy with the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Title: Iraq The Borrowed Kettle
Author(s): Zizek Slavoj
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675401
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2005
Series: Wo Es War
Category: Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
Description: In order to render the strange logic of dreams Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you (2) I returned it to you unbroken (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments of course confirms exactly what it attempts to deny that I returned a broken kettle to you. That same inconsistency i ek argues characterized the justification of the attack on Iraq: A link between Saddam's regime and al - Qaeda was transformed into the threat posed by the regime to the region which was then further transformed into the threat posed to everyone (but the US and Britain especially) by weapons of mass destruction. When no significant weapons were found we were treated to the same bizarre logic: OK the two labs we found don t really prove anything but even if there are no WMD in Iraq there are other good reasons to topple a tyrant like Saddam . Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle which can be considered as a sequel to i ek's acclaimed post - 9/11 Welcome to the Desert of the Real analyzes the background that such inconsistent argumentation conceals and simultaneously cannot help but highlight: what were the actual ideological and political stakes of the attack on Iraq? In classic i ekian style it spares nothing and nobody neither pathetically impotent pacifism nor hypocritical sympathy with the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Title: Iraq The Borrowed Kettle
Author(s): Zizek Slavoj
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675401
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2005
Series: Wo Es War
Category: Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
