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 and a Professor of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. His most recent work includes Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (2023), Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future(2021), Zizek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory's Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy(2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017).
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 "In reading Zalloua's book on the violence of resistance, one feels a sense of urgency ... A challenging but timely read for these chaotic times." --CHOICE