The archaeology of war : the history of violence between the 20th and 21st centuries / Christian Wevelsiep.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wevelsiep, Christian, author.

Series:

Anthem intercultural transfer studies.

Anthem intercultural transfer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--History--20th century.

Violence.

Violence--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.

Summary:

The twentieth-century holds many titles that emphasize the extraordinary. It was a century of totalitarianism, but also one of betrayal, an age of extremes and the incomprehensible. Betrayed, that is, at the mercy of unrestrained violence, were not only the people themselves, but also, as it were, the idea of the human being. For up to a certain point, one could weigh oneself in an unfounded security of an inner connection between people. As is well known, such certainties were knocked out of hand in that century. Many situations, many images, motifs and sources can be named for this experience of unbounded violence, which now, at the beginning of the twenty-first-century, requires new forms of transmission. In an era flooded with images, however, attention is more difficult. One has to embark on a search for traces; not because the sources are lacking, but because the form of inscription in history is problematic. This search for clues leads directly to the present monograph.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: Understanding the Violence

1. A Form of Critical Philosophy of History

2. Critical Reflection: Domination and Violence

3. Dark Spots in History

4. Reflection of Violence

PART I Violence and History

Chapter One War as 'Becoming': On the Ontology of Conflict

1. History of Power

2. History in the Space

3. The Power of Geography

4. Space as an Aesthetic and Cultural Dimension

5. Violence and Order

6. The Sense and Sensibility of Violence

7. Between Nature and Culture

Chapter Two The Embodiment of the Victim: Phenomenology of Violence Suffered

PART II Dark Spots in History

The Phatic Function of Cultural Memory

Understanding the Century

Orientation between the Centuries

Chapter Three Colonial Violence: The Dark Sides of the Modern State

1. Remembrance of Colonial Violence in 'German Southwest Africa'

2. Violence in the Shadows: The Armenian Genocide

3. The Colonial Gaze: Reflections on Cultural Psychology

Chapter Four Hate: On the enigma of divisiveness in the age of the total

1. The Existence of the Hate

2. The Motif of Refusal

3. Understanding the Ordinary and the Extraordinary

4. Violence and Meaning

Chapter Five Disastrous Violence: Ideologies

1. The Terrible Banality

2. The Reality of Evil

3. Ideologies and Doctrines

4. The War as a Noumenon

5. The Motive of Enmity

6. The Peculiar Emptiness of Morality

Chapter Six Politics, Violence and Sacrality

1. Religious Dark Spots

2. What Remains? On the Sacral Dimension of the Present

Chapter Seven The frightening love of war

1. Violence and Philosophy

2. The War as a Teacher

3. Aporias of Violence

4. The Meaning of War

5. Under the Sign of Non-violence.

Part III Between the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century: The Worldview of Concern

Chapter Eight The Valorative Space in Times of War

1. Modernity and Violence

2. Understanding the Violence

3. Philosophy of History in the Face of Violence

Chapter Nine What Does 'Learning from History' Mean? On the Implicit Pedagogy of History

Introduction

1. Philosophy of History after the Illusion of Feasibility

2. The Power of Narration

3. Dialogical Culture of History

4. The Implicit Understanding of Hermeneutics

Chapter Ten War Again? The Contribution of Philosophy to the Phenomenon of War

1. The Preference of the Own

2. Violence and Order

3. The Challenge of Enmity

Chapter Eleven From the Worldview of War to the Worldview of Concern

1. Politics and Life

2. The Logic of Worldviews

3. The Worldview of War

4. The Worldview of Concern

5. Philosophy and History

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Wevelsiep, Christian The Archaeology of War

ISBN:

9781839983566

1839983566

9781839983573

1839983574

OCLC:

1357017108