On Violence (eBook, PDF)

A Reader
Redaktion: Bruce B. Lawrence, Lawrence

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. The volume proceeds from the editors' contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it.On Violence is divided into five sections. Underscoring the connection between violence and economic world orders, the first section explores the dialectical relationship between domination and subordination. The second section brings together pieces by political actors who spoke about the tension between violence and nonviolence-Gandhi, Hitler, and Malcolm X-and by critics who have commented on that tension. The third grouping examines institutional faces of violence-familial, legal, and religious-while the fourth reflects on state violence. With a focus on issues of representation, the final section includes pieces on the relationship between violence and art, stories, and the media. The editors' introduction to each section highlights the significant theoretical points raised and the interconnections between the essays. Brief introductions to individual selections provide information about the authors and their particular contributions to theories of violence.With selections by: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Osama bin Laden, Pierre Bourdieu, Andre Breton, James Cone, Robert M. Cover, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Mohandas Gandhi, Rene Girard, Linda Gordon, Antonio Gramsci, Felix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Thomas Hobbes, Bruce B. Lawrence, Elliott Leyton, Catharine MacKinnon, Malcolm X, Dorothy Martin, Karl Marx, Chandra Muzaffar, James C. Scott, Kristine Stiles, Michael Taussig, Leon Trotsky, Simone Weil, Sharon Welch, Raymond Williams

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822390169
• Artikelnr.: 54818494

Autorenporträt

Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of The Qur’an: A Biography; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. He is the editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden and Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip-Hop (with miriam cooke). Aisha Karim is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University. She is a coeditor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
General Introduction: Theorizing Violence in the Twenty-first Century 1
Part I. The Dialectics of Violence 17
Phenomenology of Spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 27
Anti-Duhring / Friedrich Engels 39
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy / Karl Heinrich Marx 62
Concerning Violence (The Wretched of the Earth) / Frantz Fanon 78
Part II. The Other of Violence 101
Actors
Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi 110
The Right of Emergency Defense (Mein Kampf) / Adolf Hitler 127
The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X 143
Critics
Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci 158
Keywords; Marxism and Literature / Raymond Wiliams 180
Outline of a Theory of Practice / Pierre Bourdieu 188
Domination and the Arts of Resistance / James C. Scott 199
Part III. The Institution of Violence: Three Connections 215
Familial
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego / Sigmund Freud 226
Social Control and the Power of the Weak (Heroes of Their Own Lives) /
Linda Gordon 245
Battered Wives / Del Martin 255
Legal
The Shah Bano Case (Shattering the Myth) / Bruce B. Lawrence 262
Critique of Violence (Reflections) / Walter Benjamin 268
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine
MacKimmon 286
Violence and the Word / Robert M. Cover 292
Human Rights and the New World Order / Chandra Muzaffar 314
Religious
Violence and the Sacred / Rene Girard 334
Liberation and the Christian Ethic (God of the Oppressed) / James Cone 351
Dangerous Memory and Alternate Knowledges (Communities of Resistance and
Solidarity) / Sharon Welch 362
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force / Simone Weil 377
Part IV. The State of Violence 391
Leviathon / Thomas Hobbes 399
The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt 416
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault 444
Savages, Barbarians, and Civilized Men (Anti-Oedipus) / Gilles Deleuze and
Felix Guattari 472
Part V. The Representation of Violence 491
Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art / Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky
498
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing /
Michael Tuaussig 503
Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma /
Kristine Stiles 522
Declaration of War against the 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 539
Touched by Fire: Doctors without Borders in a Third World Crisis / Elliott
Leyton 547
Copyright Acknowledgments 555
Index 559