Description: The first book to bring together the theories of two philosophical giants - Frantz Fanon and Slavoj Zizek - to produce an anti-racist, anti-colonial text emphasising the possibility of freedom through collective struggle.
Brief description: Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA, and Editor of The Comparatist. His most recent publications include To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian, Fanon, Zizek and the Violence of Resistance, The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment; and Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality.
Review Quotes:
"Zahi Zalloua's Fanon, Zizek, and the Violence of Resistance represents a radical breakthrough in the understanding and theorizing of political violence. It profoundly grasps the connection between the political philosophies of Fanon and Zizek, two thinkers never hitherto thought together. But after the event of Zalloua's book, we can never think them apart. It's a landmark work that transforms the terrain of our political thinking." -- Todd McGowan, Author of Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity (2024)
"Zahi Zalloua's book compellingly achieves what is most urgently needed in our current social and political predicament. By bringing together Fanon and Zizek as a philosophical pair, he constructs a genuinely novel conceptual tool-one that goes a long way in dismantling the false oppositions and dividing lines that so often paralyze us, replacing them with ones that could truly make a difference." --Alenka Zupancic