An approach to violence concept from Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han perspective

Abstract

Violence issue has been analyzed from different aspects, but in this case, an analysis is carried out from the boundaries of philosophy. The text focuses attention on two violence concepts. The first one from Slavoj Žižek, and the second one, from Byung Chul Han. From the beginning of the writing, it points out that the violence of negativity, much easier to identify, is explicitly found in the Mexican context with the cold numbers that account for it. Subsequently, it is about letting us see how the violence of positivity, which is not at all exclusive to developed countries, is present in our educational institutions in an invisible way, promoting the self-examination of those who integrate these institutions. For obvious reasons, this problem is urgent to be addressed, and with it, to be able to build strategies as resistance.