On violence : a reader / edited by Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrence, Bruce B.

Karim, Aisha, 1968-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (591 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An interdisciplinary collection of primary texts on the subject of violence, from Freud to Gramsci to Foucault, from Ghandi to Osama bin Laden. The editors' introductions frame the texts within questions of how violence is generated and perpetuated in so

Contents:

General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the twenty-first century

Part I. The dialectics of violence. Phenomenology of spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ; Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels ; Capital: a critique of political economy / Karl Heinrich Marx ; Concerning violence (The wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon

Part II. The other of violence. Actors: Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi ; The right of emergency defense (Mein Kampf ) / Adolf Hitler ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X

Critics: Selections from the Prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci ; Keywords ; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Williams ; Outline of a theory of practice / Pierre Bourdieu ; Domination and the arts of resistance / James C. Scott

Part III. The institution of violence: three connections. Familial: Group psychology and the analysis of the ego / Sigmund Freud ; Social control and the powers of the weak (Heroes of their own lives) / Linda Gordon ; Battered wives / Del Martin

Legal: The Shah Bano case (Shattering the myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence ; Critique of violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin ; Feminism, Marxism, method, and the state: an agenda for theory / Catharine MacKinnon ; Violence and the word / Robert M. Cover ; Human rights and the new world order / Chandra Muzaffar

Religious: Violence and the sacred / Rene Girard ; Liberation and the Christian ethic (God of the oppressed) / James Cone ; Dangerous memory and alternate knowledges (Communities of resistance and solidarity) / Sharon Welch ; The Iliad, or the poem of force / Simone Weil

Part IV. The state of violence. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison / Michel Foucault ; Savages, barbarians, and civilized men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Part V. The representation of violence. Manifesto: towards a free revolutionary art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky ; Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man: a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig ; Shaved heads and marked bodies: representations from cultures of trauma / Kristine Stiles ; Declaration of war against Americans occupying the land of the two holy places / Osama bin Laden ; In the name of Osama Bin Laden: global terrorism and the Bin Laden brotherhood / Roland Jacquard ; Touched by fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World crisis / Elliott Leyton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-558) and index.

ISBN:

9786612923463

9781282923461

1282923463

9780822390169

0822390167

OCLC:

245537931