The Weight of Violence Religion, Language, Politics

by Das, Saitya Brata; Choudhury, Soumyabrata

• ISBN13: 9780199453726
• ISBN10: 0199453721
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-01-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Saitya Brata Das is Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Soumyabrata Choudhury, is Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Weight of Violence
PART I
1. On Violence: Mimesis, Death Instinct, and Alterity, Gerard Bensussan
2. The Experience of Silence: Derrida and the Language of Negative Theology, Andrea Potesta
3. Stupidity, Madness, and Malevolence: Schelling, Deleuze, Flaubert, and Musil and the Problem of Violence, Jason Wirth
4. 'No Eye has Seen it': The Renewal of the Human Condition in Marx and Levinas, Aicha Liviana Messina
5. The Necessity for Clean Air and Space is Stronger Than Any Kinds of Hatred: An Essay on the Concept of Violence in Walter Benjamin, Maria Joao Cantinho
6. Tears Are Not Yet Wiped Away on All Faces, Saitya Brata Das
7. The Concrete Violence of History and the Apocalyptic Messianic Dwarf, Mike Grimshaw
8. Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse, John Frow
9. Capital Violence, Clayton Crockett
10. St. Paul, Gabriel Naude, Antonin Artaud : Three Violent and Delicate Exceptions to Law and Liturgy, Soumyabrata Choudhury
PART II
11. Roots of Violence: Jiva, Life, and Other Things, Rustam Singh
12. Violence of/on Languages: The Political Topography of Linguistic Nationalism in South Asia, Asha Sarangi
13. The Violence of Linguistic Cosmopolitanism, Selma Sonntag
14. Carrying out a Region Beyond: Religious Violence in Partition Narratives, Prachi Gurjarpadhye Khandeparker
15. Conflict a Site for Perpetuation of Traditional Values, Veena Sharma
Index
About the Editors and Contributors