The Meanings of Violence : From Critical Theory to Biopolitics / edited by Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Gavin, Editor.

Contributor:

Rae, Gavin, 1982-

Ingala, Emma.

Series:

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy.

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2018

Summary:

Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit it to physical forms. This changed in the twentieth century as the nature and meaning of 'violence' itself became a conceptual problem. Guided by the contention that Walter Benjamin's famous 1921 'Critique of Violence' essay inaugurated this turn to an explicit questioning of violence, this collection brings together an international array of scholars to engage with how subsequent thinkers--Agamben, Arendt, Benjamin, Butler, Castoriadis, Derrida, Fanon, Gramsci, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Schmitt--grappled with the meaning and place of violence. The aim is not to reduce these multiple responses to a singular one, but to highlight the heterogeneous ways in which the concept has been inquired into and the manifold meanings of it that have resulted. To this end, each chapter focuses on a different approach or thinker within twentieth and twenty-first century European philosophy, with many of them tackling the issue through the mediation of other topics and disciplines, including biopolitics, epistemology, ethics, culture, law, politics, and psychoanalysis. As such, the volume will be an invaluable resource for those interested in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Political Theory, Psychology, and Sociology.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Meanings of Violence; Part I Political Myth and Social Transformation; 1 Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon; 2 Violence, Divine or Otherwise: Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation; 3 Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel; 4 The Violence of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt and the Tragic Loss of Revolutionary Politics; Part II Sociality and Meaning; 5 The World and the Embodied Subject: Humanism, Terror, and Violence

6 Dialectics Got the Upper Hand: Fanon, Violence, and the Quest[ion] of Liberation7 Sartre's Later Work: Toward a Notion of Institutional Violence; 8 The Original Polemos: Phenomenology and Violence in Jacques Derrida; Part III From Subjectivity to Biopolitics; 9 Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual; 10 Judith Butler: From a Normative Violence to an Ethics of Non-Violence; 11 Biopolitics and Resistance: The Meaning of Violence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781351336529

1351336525

9780203703762

0203703766

9781351336512

1351336517

OCLC:

1061130685