The Meanings of Violence (eBook, PDF)

From Critical Theory to Biopolitics
Redaktion: Rae, Gavin; Ingala, Emma

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Guided by Benjamin's essay Critique of Violence, this collection shows how subsequent thinkers within critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstructionism, and biopolitical theory have conceptualized violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351336529
• Artikelnr.: 54556257

Autorenporträt

Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (2011); Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze (2014); The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (2016); and co-editor (with Emma Ingala) of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018). Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and Vice-Dean of Academic Organization in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She specializes in post-structuralist thought, political anthropology, feminist theory and psychoanalysis, and is the co-editor (with Gavin Rae) of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

The Meanings of Violence: Introduction Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala

Part I: Political Myth and Social Transformation

1. Walter Benjamin and the General Strike: Non-Violence and the Archeon James Martel

2. Violence, Divine or Otherwise: Myth and Violence in the Benjamin-Schmitt Constellation Hjalmar Falk

3. Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel Robert P. Jackson

4. The Violence of Oblivion: Hannah Arendt and the Tragic Loss of Revolutionary Politics Liesbeth Schoonheim

Part II: Sociality and Meaning

5. The World and the Embodied Subject: Humanism, Terror, and Violence Stephen A. Noble

6. Dialectics got the Upper Hand: Fanon, Violence, and the Quest[ion] of Liberation Nigel C. Gibson

7. Sartre's Later Work: Towards a Notion of Institutional Violence Marieke Mueller

8. The Original Polemos: Phenomenology and Violence in Jacques Derrida Valeria Campos-Salvaterra

Part III: From Subjectivity to Biopolitics

9. Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual Gavin Rae

10. Judith Butler: From a Formative Violence to an Ethics of Non-Violence Emma Ingala

11. Biopolitics and Resistance: The Meaning of Violence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben German Primera