The subject of violence : Arendtean exercises in understanding / Bat-Ami Bar On.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bar On, Bat-Ami, 1948-

Series:

Feminist constructions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bar On, Bat-Ami, 1948-.

Bar On, Bat-Ami.

Violence.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xv, 201 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

The Subject of Violence is a critical investigation of violence and the subjectifying capacities. It both relies on and explores the work of Hannah Arendt. At its background are feminist concerns, but also concerns with violence that press against the feminist problematic and push its boundaries. The book's main project is ethico-political "understanding" and, therefore, it is also about finding an ethico-political language for violence that escapes the standard idioms in which violence is spoken. Weaving biographical fragments with theory, the book addresses the very thinking of violence, the possibility and implications of its comprehension, genocide (the Nazi Judeocide in particular) and nationalism (especially in its Zionist form), as well as women's encounters with violence and second-wave feminist engagement with the martial arts.

Contents:

Part I. Signs of Trauma

1. Thinking about Violence between Theory and (Auto) Biography 3

2. Shattered Worlds and Shocked Understandings 29

3. A Legacy of Women in Dark Times 59

Part II. Shapes of Violence

4. Thoughtless Action into Nature and The Violence of Genocide 87

5. An Excursus (Perhaps): Eichmann in Jerusalem and Post-Zionism 111

6. Violence in the Intersection of Nationalism and the State Form 119

Part III. Ambiguous Alternatives

7. Violent Bodies 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index.

ISBN:

0847697703

0847697711

OCLC:

49565298