This collection of essays addresses the question concerning the role of violence in today's society. Taking up the religious and linguistic forms of violence as their main focus, they offer varied perspectives on the place of violence from an interdisciplinary perspective. As such, this collection will be an important contribution to such an important question like violence.
This collection of essays addresses the question concerning the role of violence in today's society. Taking up the religious and linguistic forms of violence as their main focus, they offer varied perspectives on the place of violence from an interdisciplinary perspective. As such, this collection will be an important contribution to such an important question like violence.
Saitya Brata Das is Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Soumyabrata Choudhury, is Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction: The Weight of Violence * PART I * 1: Gérard Bensussan: On Violence: Mimesis, Death Instinct, and Alterity * 2: Andrea Potesta: The Experience of Silence: Derrida and the Language of Negative Theology * 3: Jason Wirth: Stupidity, Madness, and Malevolence: Schelling, Deleuze, Flaubert, and Musil and the Problem of Violence * 4: Aïcha Liviana Messina: 'No Eye has Seen it': The Renewal of the Human Condition in Marx and Lévinas * 5: Maria Joao Cantinho: The Necessity for Clean Air and Space is Stronger Than Any Kinds of Hatred: An Essay on the Concept of Violence in Walter Benjamin * 6: Saitya Brata Das: Tears Are Not Yet Wiped Away on All Faces * 7: Mike Grimshaw: The Concrete Violence of History and the Apocalyptic Messianic Dwarf * 8: John Frow: Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse * 9: Clayton Crockett: Capital Violence * 10: Soumyabrata Choudhury: St. Paul, Gabriel Naudé, Antonin Artaud : Three Violent and Delicate Exceptions to Law and Liturgy * PART II * 11: Rustam Singh: Roots of Violence: Jiva, Life, and Other Things * 12: Asha Sarangi: Violence of/on Languages: The Political Topography of Linguistic Nationalism in South Asia * 13: Selma Sonntag: The Violence of Linguistic Cosmopolitanism * 14: Prachi Gurjarpadhye Khandeparker: Carrying out a Region Beyond: Religious Violence in Partition Narratives * 15: Veena Sharma: Conflict a Site for Perpetuation of Traditional Values * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
* Acknowledgements * Introduction: The Weight of Violence * PART I * 1: Gérard Bensussan: On Violence: Mimesis, Death Instinct, and Alterity * 2: Andrea Potesta: The Experience of Silence: Derrida and the Language of Negative Theology * 3: Jason Wirth: Stupidity, Madness, and Malevolence: Schelling, Deleuze, Flaubert, and Musil and the Problem of Violence * 4: Aïcha Liviana Messina: 'No Eye has Seen it': The Renewal of the Human Condition in Marx and Lévinas * 5: Maria Joao Cantinho: The Necessity for Clean Air and Space is Stronger Than Any Kinds of Hatred: An Essay on the Concept of Violence in Walter Benjamin * 6: Saitya Brata Das: Tears Are Not Yet Wiped Away on All Faces * 7: Mike Grimshaw: The Concrete Violence of History and the Apocalyptic Messianic Dwarf * 8: John Frow: Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse * 9: Clayton Crockett: Capital Violence * 10: Soumyabrata Choudhury: St. Paul, Gabriel Naudé, Antonin Artaud : Three Violent and Delicate Exceptions to Law and Liturgy * PART II * 11: Rustam Singh: Roots of Violence: Jiva, Life, and Other Things * 12: Asha Sarangi: Violence of/on Languages: The Political Topography of Linguistic Nationalism in South Asia * 13: Selma Sonntag: The Violence of Linguistic Cosmopolitanism * 14: Prachi Gurjarpadhye Khandeparker: Carrying out a Region Beyond: Religious Violence in Partition Narratives * 15: Veena Sharma: Conflict a Site for Perpetuation of Traditional Values * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
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