Philosophy and the Return of Violence Studies from this Widening Gyre

by Yates, Christopher S.; Eckstrand, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9781441152725
• ISBN10: 1441152725
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A range of leading philosophers set the best resources of the philosophical tradition to the task of interpreting violence in its diverse expressions.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Christopher Yates, Boston College)

I. BETWEEN POLITICAL NECESSITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE

1. Philosophy after 9/11 (John McCumber, UCLA)

2. Who Counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable (Dennis Schmidt, Penn State University)

3. Perpetual Peace and the Invention of Total War (Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University )

4. Violent Thoughts about Slavoj Zizek (Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research)

II. AT THE BORDERS OF ENMITY, OTHERNESS AND IDENTITY

5. Fragile Identity: Respect for the Other and Cultural Identity (Paul Ricoeur (trans. Mark Gedney, Gordon College))

6. Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity (Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University (trans. Mark Gedney, Gordon College))

7. Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity (Richard Kearney, Boston College)

8. Towards an Anthropology of Violence: Existential Analyses of Levinas, Girard, Freud (Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College)

9.  Agamben on Violence, Language, and Human Rights (Peg Birmingham, Depaul University)

III. DIAGNOSING POWER, NON-VIOLENCE AND DISCOURSE

10. Violence and Non-Violence (James Dodd, New School for Social Research)

11. Lines of Fragility: A Foucaultian Critique of Violence (Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee )

12. The Logic of Violence: Foucault on How Power Kills (Peter DeAngelis, Villanova University)

13. The Remainder: Between Symbolic and Material Violence (Ann Murphy, Fordham University)

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